
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.


Consumer Myopia, Imperfect Competition and the Energy Efficiency Gap: Evidence from the UK Refrigerator Market

Turning from subsistence farming to commercial agriculture in Cambodia: a “Double Loss” for rural communities

From Ashes to Diamonds: Making Lab-Grown Afterlife

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

Bastiaan Quast blog

Next steps for the plastic pollution treaty

Teaching ESG, not as easy as ABC

Global Governance of Plastic Pollution: Transforming the Global Plastics Economy

EU priorities for the future of the WTO ahead of MC12

The Research at the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy podcast series explores civic technologies in Geneva

Biosecurity R&D: lessons from the U.S. from pre-Covid to post-Covid
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View moreGoal 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