Distinguished Innovator - Adam Bosworth, Founder & CEO, Keas
Adam Bosworth, Founder & CEO, Keas Distinguished Innovator
A. RICHARD NEWTON Distinguished Innovator Lecture Series The lecture series recognizes the entrepreneurial vision of A. Richard Newton, Dean of UC Berkeley's College of Engineering from 2000 to 2007, by inviting industry's distinguished innovators to share lessons from their own successes and failures. A cooperative effort between the College of Engineering's Center for Entrepreneurship (CET) and the Haas School of Business, the lectures take place on the Berkeley campus on Tuesday evenings and admission is free.
Michael Greenstone (MIT) & Hardik Shah (Gujarat Pollution Board) discussed the challenges of environmental regulation in India. First, Greenstone presented on how a change in pollution auditor incentive structures in the state of Gujarat lead to significant reductions in false reporting and actual pollution emissions. Shah then discussed how the Gujarat Pollution Board was able to use this evidence to enact real policy change.
China is something of a post developmentalism phenomenon. But its rise has shaken up many security and economic presumptions of developmentalist regimes. How has this played out? To what extent does a stronger China shift major calculations behind developmentalism?