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Theme : china
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Counterfeit Brit in the Copycat Capital
It is certainly an uphill struggle throughout China to change a mindset that to some extent just doesn?t get the issue with IP. A while ago an article on the BBC (which I can?t link to because the BBC is blocked in China) told the story of the craze for amateur pop stars to record their own song in China and put it up online for everyone to hear. One particularly successful young starlet won a record deal from her performance and sold 200,000 CDs. But this was small fry compared to the 3...
from : kirstenbound
21st November 2005
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Beijing: Big. Huge. Lots of Traffic.
Mapping science in China is of interest not only to us, but to the Chinese as well. We've talked to one of the 2 organisations here which works on bibliometrics - The Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC). Last year, when they published their rankings of Chinese universities, over 1,000 people attended the press conference. There is clearly a lot of interest locally in exactly what quality of work is being done in universities, and how it can be measured.We missed...
from : mollywebb
19th November 2005
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Mile high blogging
This is a first - for me at least - I'm posting this from 35,000 feet above Afghanistan. I'm currently on a Lufthansa flight and thanks to the new Boeing Skynet service, am savouring the joys of full broadband access (even the Demos VPN works!). Advert over. My real reason for posting is to say I'll be away from the office for the rest of May, carrying out some scoping research for our Atlas of Ideas project, which is exploring trends in science and innovation in China, India and South...
from : jameswilsdon
8th May 2005
