The Atlas of Ideas
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The Atlas of Ideas
In May 2007, the United Arab Emirates launched a $10bn foundation to create research centres in Arab univerisities. In Brazil, a consortium of 80 organisations has teamed up to invest $3 billion in biotechnology. In Qatar, a gleaming 2,500 acre 'Education City' is now home to international campuses of five of the world's top universities.
Wherever in the world you look, new enrants are reshaping the landscape for science and technology-based innovation. But what do these changes mean? How should policymakers and business leaders respond? And how do we strike the right balance between competition and collaboration?
In early 2007, Demos published a series of reports on science and technology-based innovation in China, India and South Korea, and the prospects for closer collaboration with the UK and Europe.
The second phase of The Atlas of Ideas included projects on the future of innovation in Brazil, flows of highly skilled migrants to the UK, low carbon innovation in China, and the development of a landmark study of innovation in the Islamic World. Some of this work is now being taken forward by James Wilsdon from his new base at the Royal Society's International Science Policy Centre.
For further information on specific projects, visit:
- Brazil: The Natural Knowledge-Economy;
- Knowledge Nomads;
- The Atlas of Islamic World Innovation
For further information about the Atlas of Ideas, please contact James Wilsdon (james[dot]wilsdon[at]royalsociety[dot]org)
Publications
- The Atlas of Ideas: How Asian innovation can benefit us all Charles Leadbeater and James Wilsdon
- China: the next science superpower? James Wilsdon
- India: the uneven innovator Kirsten Bound
- Korea: mass innovation comes of age Molly Webb
- The Atlas of Ideas - Europe
Related Articles
- Charles Leadbeater and James Wilsdon, Do not fear the rise of world-class science in Asia, Financial Times, October 12, 2005
- Project launch seminar transcript, October 12, 2005
- Project overview (2005) English | Chinese
- China seminar transcript, December 13, 2005
- The New Geography of Science, James Wilsdon and Jonathan Adams of Evidence Ltd., September, 2006
- James Wilsdon, The science lobby is getting it wrong on innovation, Financial Times, November 3, 2006
- James Wilsdon, Islamic Innovation is Finally on A Rising Crescent, Financial Times, October 19, 2007
- James Wilsdon, At last, real creative spark, Times Higher Education Supplement, March 18, 2008
- Authors
- James Wilsdon, Jonathan Adams
- Publication Date
- 2006-09-15
- Publication Type
- Report
- Authors
- Charles Leadbeater, James Wilsdon
- Publication Date
- 2007-01-17
- Publication Type
- Pamphlet
We used to know where new ideas would come from: established universities and corporate research centres in highly developed countries. Think again.
- Authors
- Publication Date
- 2007-01-17
- Publication Type
- Pamphlet
China in 2007 is the world’s largest technocracy: a country ruled by scientists and engineers who believe in the power of technology to deliver social and economic progress. The country is at an early stage in the most ambitious programme of research investment since John F Kennedy embarked on the race to the moon. But statistics fail to capture the raw power of the changes that are under way, and the potential for Chinese science and innovation to head in new and surprising directions.
- Authors
- Publication Date
- 2007-01-17
- Publication Type
- Pamphlet
Indian science confounds easy clichés. Many Indias coexist, all moving at different speeds. World-class science exists alongside grinding poverty. But India’s uneven innovation brings significant strengths as well as weaknesses. Flows of people, ideas and culture, both within India and across its global diaspora, are generating new businesses, new opportunities and a growing sense of national confidence.
- Authors
- Publication Date
- 2007-01-17
- Publication Type
- Report
South Korea’s transformation from ‘hermit kingdom’ to a global technology power has been the most dramatic development story of the last half century. Yet the Korean state cannot afford complacency as other Asian powers rise around it.
- Authors
- Charles Leadbeater, James Wilsdon, Molly Webb, Kirsten Bound, Simon O'Connor
- Publication Date
- 2007-05-10
- Publication Type
- Pamphlet
We used to know where new ideas would come from: established universities and corporate research centres in highly developed countries. Think again.
- Authors
- Kirsten Bound
- Publication Date
- 2008-07-08
- Publication Type
- Pamphlet
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