The editors of the Globelics Working Paper Series call for papers that to a greater extend deal with the Grand Challenges of our time. They encourage researchers in the Globelics community to contribute to an expansion of the Globelics research agenda to meet some of the massive new research challenges of sustainable development in the Anthropocene. Topics may be difficult but a multidisciplinary network of researchers operating in the intersection between innovation studies and development studies should be very well positioned to tackle some of the new sustainability challenges.