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Theme : india
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India's biodiversity is a potential resource
The second part of the project will see researchers from Demos fan out to Brazil, South Africa and parts of the Islamic world.
It took 18 months of research and interviews with over 450 people including venture capitalists, policymakers, professors of quantum theory and even some priests. This study of
from : kirstenbound
7th January 2008
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Q&A: "Britain should unleash mass collaboration with India"
The Atlas of Idea, a series of four reports published by Demos, a UK think tank, looks at the pace and scale of scientific innovation in India, China and South Korea. James Wilsdon, science and innovation head, Demos, and Kirsten Bound, author, India: The Uneven Innovator, spoke to Narayani Ganesh in Delhi recently:
from : kirstenbound
3rd December 2007
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Demos in the Deccan Herald
Our event at IIM Bangalore last week has been written up in the Deccan Herald by Rajeev Gowda.
from : jameswilsdon
27th November 2007
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Atlas of ideas: Where India features prominently
India may have strengths like democracy, diversity, demography, interdependence and role models, but it can't become a global research giant unless it harnesses the strengths. By conventional metrics such as numbers of patents, the centres of innovation worldwide are the United States, Europe and Japan. Yet, two researchers from the influential British think tank Demos argue that the world’s future innovation hotspots are...
from : kirstenbound
26th November 2007
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A passage to India
Last week, the Atlas of Ideas came full circle in India, when we presented the findings at a one-day conference in Delhi. The event, hosted by the National Institute for Science, Technology and Development Studies, brough together policy-makers and scientists from India, China, Korea and the UK to explore ways of increasing scientific collaboration.
from : jameswilsdon
26th November 2007
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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.
from : mollywebb
16th January 2007
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The Atlas of Ideas
We used to know where new ideas would come from: established universities and corporate research centres in highly developed countries. Think again.
from : mollywebb
16th January 2007
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India offers opportunities for developing innovation activities
Sitra’s India Programme published the report New Geography of Innovation: India, Finland, Science and Technology on 12 December 2006. The authors of the report, who are researchers at the British Demos think tank, stress the importance of close co-operation between India and Finland for the upgrading of Finland’s innovative capacity
from : mollywebb
15th January 2007
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From muddy villages to boomtown | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
"Britain is sleepwalking out of its special relationship with India because not enough people have woken up to how fast the country is changing," said Charles Leadbeater, a research associate at Demos and a former Downing Street adviser.
from : mollywebb
15th January 2007
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Linguistic Diversity in India
This is a really interesting article by Pratap Bhanu Mehta about the dynamics of politics and langauge in India. Actually, it makes some pretty salient points about language choice and politics generally. As debates about the dominance of English and linguistic imperialism proliferate and some countries take active and coercive steps to limit its influence, Mehta argues for 'the principle of non-coercion', a linguistic policy for which he praises Nehru.
from : samjones
2nd November 2006
