
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.


Accelerating achievement of the sustainable development goals

Green extractivism and global supply chains

The Digital Marketplace and Development

Promoting Sustainable Investment and Green Trade : the Swiss perspective

Life Along the Copper Value Chain: the Swiss Commodity Trading Hub and its Impact on the Global South

Perceptions of Power: Closing the Gender Gap in the Digital Sphere

Briefing for the UN Secretary General and his Senior Management Group

Indefinite transits: mobility and confinement in the age of steam

Special issue on Normfare: Norm Entrepreneurship in Internet Governance

Students Present “Blue Peace” Project at World Conservation Congress

E-Commerce Terminology for Trade Policy Negotiators
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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