Sam Unsworth
@samuns.bsky.social
Researching and teaching innovation and systems change. Interests: futures produced by efforts to drive sustainability transformation. Old wine in new bottles?
Currently based at Chalmers University in Sweden, previously at the Grantham Institute, LSE
Currently based at Chalmers University in Sweden, previously at the Grantham Institute, LSE
New article published! ‘We don’t want to be colonialism 2.0’: emerging frontiers of climate finance for technology innovationhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2833115X.2025.2483766#abstract
‘We don’t want to be colonialism 2.0’: emerging frontiers of climate finance for technology innovation
In this study of a venture capital intermediary investing in ‘climate technology’ startups for Africa, this intermediary’s spatial configuration of financing is framed by its employees and networks...
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May 7, 2025 at 10:34 AM
New article published! ‘We don’t want to be colonialism 2.0’: emerging frontiers of climate finance for technology innovationhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2833115X.2025.2483766#abstract
I might use this foreword by Tony Blair in a bachelors course I need to design in innovation and sustainability...for an exercise about how different actors (un)subtly frame problems/solutions related to climate change. I agree with most of the first 25%; the rest, well...https://shorturl.at/X3r29
May 1, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I might use this foreword by Tony Blair in a bachelors course I need to design in innovation and sustainability...for an exercise about how different actors (un)subtly frame problems/solutions related to climate change. I agree with most of the first 25%; the rest, well...https://shorturl.at/X3r29
Who gets to shape the future in efforts to rapidly change energy systems —transnational companies or more local innovators? Our new study explores competing imaginaries of change & their material impacts. Full findings here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #JustTransitions #EnergyPolicy
March 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Who gets to shape the future in efforts to rapidly change energy systems —transnational companies or more local innovators? Our new study explores competing imaginaries of change & their material impacts. Full findings here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #JustTransitions #EnergyPolicy
I've joined the bluesky migration: shouting hello into the followerless void. I'll post research about why dominant systems change approaches continue to prioritize innovation logics which scale tech to distant + passive users, even though we’ve long known that context is key to sustainability...
March 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I've joined the bluesky migration: shouting hello into the followerless void. I'll post research about why dominant systems change approaches continue to prioritize innovation logics which scale tech to distant + passive users, even though we’ve long known that context is key to sustainability...