The Technology and Industrialisation for Development Centre (TIDE) explores the complex relationships between trade, investment, technology, industrialization, innovation and sustainability in the context of development.
Photo: K M Asad / World Bank CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
At a software technology park in Dhaka, Bangladesh
The Centre was created in 2008 by Professor Xiaolan Fu as a multidisciplinary research hub within the Oxford Department of International Development which brings together scholars and practitioners who view technology and industrialisation as essential drivers of sustainable development. It has built on the pioneering work since the 1970s by its influential development economists —Frances Stewart, Sanjaya Lall, Barbara Harriss-White, Adrian Wood, and Valpy FitzGerald. In an era when the development agenda was dominated by concerns around food security, poverty reduction, and aid, these thoughts leaders have championed the transformative power of technology and industrialisation as key levers for progress.
Today, the Centre’s mission is more crucial than ever. With increasing disparities in technological capabilities and a renewed global industrialization race, especially in the transition to a low-carbon economy, it is imperative to push the knowledge frontiers on innovation and industrial policy for local prosperity and true sustainability for all.
Programmes:
- Technology transfer, diffusion and innovation
- Frontiers of industrial policy
- Biodiversity and innovation
History
2008 Foundation of the Sanjaya Lall Programme for Technology and Management for Development by Professor Xiaolan Fu
2012 Formal establishment of the Technology and Management Centre for Development (TMCD), building on the success of the Sanjaya Lall Programme
2018 Global impact and research expansion
2021 TMCD’s first spin-out: OxValue.AI
2024 TMCD rebrands as the Technology and Industrialisation for Development Centre (TIDE) with new Director, Professor Amir Lebdioui.
Director
Further Information
Website: https://oxford-tide.org
Contact: tide@qeh.ox.ac.uk
TIDE is supported by the generous funding of ESRC, EPSRC, UKaid, European Commission, OSF, UNDP, UNIDO, British Academy, Huawei Technologies Ltd, Tencent.