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• As You Like It Catching up in an age of global English Around the world, the way that English is used has come to reflect the changing powers of globalisation; it is spoken in different ways, by different people, for different purposes. The UK has developed an unsustainable complacency to its native tongue. Opportunity and influence remain tied to English, but As You Like It argues that native speakers are at risk of being left behind. Peter Bradwell Samuel Jones March 2007 | from English in the Developing World
• Cultural Diplomacy Cultural Diplomacy argues that the huge global reach and potential of Britain’s world class artistic and cultural assets – from Razorlight to the Royal Ballet - should be at the heart of government relationship building abroad. John Holden Kirsten Bound February 2007
• The Case for a National Security Strategy Charlie Edwards February 2007 | from Networked Security
• Future Planners Propositions for the next age of planning This report argues that as our places become more important, planners can play a key role in ensuring that place-making is sustainable and democratically legitimate. The challenge is to respond to a radically changed world that offers new a democratic contexts; planners will need to be able consider the needs of people who work, play and visit places as well as local residents' interests. And they need to plan for the global as well as the local environmental impacts of new development. Peter Bradwell February 2007
• Confronting the Skills Paradox: Maximising human potential in a 21st Century Economy This provocation paper analyses the strengths and weaknesses of the emerging consensus – given expression by Lord Leitch in his review – around education and skills policy for the future. It argues that important elements of this consensus need to be challenged if the UK is to fulfil the laudable ambitions outlined in the Leitch Review and succeed in harnessing the talents of the whole population. Duncan O'Leary Grahame Broadbelt January 2007
• Korea: Mass innovation comes of age 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. Molly Webb January 2007 | from Atlas of Ideas 2.0
• India: The uneven innovator 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. Kirsten Bound January 2007 | from Atlas of Ideas 2.0
• China: The next science superpower? 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. James Keeley James Wilsdon January 2007 | from Atlas of Ideas 2.0
• The Atlas of Ideas How Asian innovation can benefit us all We used to know where new ideas would come from: established universities and corporate research centres in highly developed countries. Think again. Charles Leadbeater James Wilsdon January 2007 | from Atlas of Ideas 2.0
• Their Space Education for a digital generation Their Space: Education for a digital generation draws on qualitative research with children and polling of parents to counter the myths obscuring the true value of digital media. Celia Hannon Hannah Green January 2007 | from Children of Europa

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