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Claudia Obando Rodriguez

Biography

Claudia E. Obando Rodriguez is an economist, with a MSc in Technology and Innovation Management and a doctorate from SPRU.

Previously, she headed the National Digital Entrepreneurship Programme, Apps.co, at the Colombian ICT Ministry.

As a senior advisor in Colciencias – now the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of Colombia (Minciencias), she led the Technology-Based Entrepreneurship and Managing Innovation Programmes.

In 2016, she was awarded a Chancellor’s International Research Scholarship CIRS by the University of Sussex, which brought her back to the UK as a PhD student. Her doctoral research examined the role of social actors in processes of regional diversification and industrial change in developing countries.

Claudia has been involved in the work of TIPC in Colombia since 2016, supporting training, mentoring and research and managing communications and engagement for and with the Latin American Hub.

Her main interest is to understand the sectorial dynamics enabling industrial transformation and the processes of regional diversification driven by the delivery of sustainable development goals.

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Fostering place-based coalitions between social movements and science for sustainable urban environments: A case of embedded agency

The objective of this paper is to contribute to an important debate concerning the interaction between place-based social movements and the science, technology and innovation system. The central proposition of this paper is that place-based social movements can facilitate unique local heterogeneous alliances with key actors of the science and technology system. A process of … from Fostering place-based coalitions between social movements and science for sustainable urban environments: A case of embedded agency

HUB application of transformative outcomes to TIP in practice (Spanish version)

En esta presentación Claudia Obando-Rodríguez y Paloma Bernal-Hernández evaluan 2 iniciativas de base y una estrategia de política pública a través de la lupa de los alcances transformadores, como parte del enfoque de Evaluación Formativa. Los casos de estudio son: 1) Movimientos sociales situados, ciencia local y sistemas socioecológicos inclusivos en los humedales de Bogotá; … from HUB application of transformative outcomes to TIP in practice (Spanish version)

HUB application of transformative outcomes to TIP in practice (English version)

This presentation by Claudia Obando-Rodriguez and Paloma Bernal-Hernandez evaluates the following two grassroots initiatives and public policy strategy through the lens of transformative outcomes, as part of the formative evaluation approach: Situated social movements, local science and inclusive social-ecological systems in the wetlands of Bogota Social innovation and the Polystyrene Ban policy in Iza, Boyacá … from HUB application of transformative outcomes to TIP in practice (English version)