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At the Graduate Institute multiple professors, researchers and students work on SDG 9. Our activities range from research projects on innovation, diffusion and green growth to publications and events.
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Life Along the Copper Value Chain: the Swiss Commodity Trading Hub and its Impact on the Global South
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How can we structure digital spaces more democratically?
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Briefing for the UN Secretary General and his Senior Management Group
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Global Governance of Plastic Pollution: Transforming the Global Plastics Economy
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Geneva Trade Week 2021
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Teaching ESG, not as easy as ABC
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From Ashes to Diamonds: Making Lab-Grown Afterlife
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Managing complexity in the platform economy: self-regulation and the cross-border social dialogue route
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Digital Trust 2025
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How can we democratise the platform economy?
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Lithium Mining in the Atacama Salt Flats and its Impacts
Discover more SDGs
Goal 9 encompasses “three important aspects of sustainable development: infrastructure, industrialization and innovation. Infrastructure provides the basic physical systems and structures essential to the operation of a society or enterprise. Industrialization drives economic growth, creates job opportunities and thereby reduces income poverty. Innovation advances the technological capabilities of industrial sectors and prompts the development of new skills” as put by the UN Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform. Read more about Goal 9