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SUMMARY:MIOIR Seminar: Tim Foxon\, SPRU - Energy and Economic Growth: Why
  we need a new pathway to prosperity
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DESCRIPTION:The Manchester Institute of Innovation Research runs a series
  of regular seminars given by visiting speakers to Manchester\, discussi
 ng key issues in science\, technology and innovation policy and manageme
 nt.\nThe seminars are normally held at CityLabs on Oxford Road\, and are
  open to all with an interest in science\, technology\, and innovation.\
 n\nTim Foxon\, SPRU - Energy and Economic Growth: Why we need a new path
 way to prosperity\n\nDrawing on the presenter’s recent book\, this prese
 ntation reports on insights for a transition to a sustainable low carbon
  energy future that can be drawn from a study of the role of energy tech
 nologies in historical waves of industrial change. Drawing on evolutiona
 ry economics and ecological economics\, this study examines the role tha
 t access to new sources of (fossil fuel) energy and economy-wide energy 
 efficiency improvements have played in these historical waves\, which ha
 ve driven surges of economic growth. This has lessons for the scale of c
 hanges in technologies\, institutions\, business strategies and user pra
 ctices that will be needed for a low carbon energy transition\, and for 
 recent debates on green growth vs post growth perspectives\, implying th
 e need for new economic thinking.\n\nBio\nProf Tim Foxon is Professor of
  Sustainability Transitions at SPRU (Science Policy Research Unit)\, Uni
 versity of Sussex. His research explores the technological and social fa
 ctors relating to the innovation of new energy technologies\, the co-evo
 lution of technologies and institutions for a transition to a sustainabl
 e low carbon economy\, and relations and interdependencies between energ
 y use and economic growth. He is a member of the Centre on Innovation an
 d Energy Demand\, the UK Energy Research Centre and of the ESRC Centre f
 or Climate Change Economics and Policy. His book on Energy and Economic 
 Growth: Why we need a new pathway to prosperity has recently been publis
 hed by Routledge.\n\n\n
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LOCATION:City Labs 1\, Nelson St\,  \, Manchester\, M13 9NQ
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