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Theme : innovation
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Sub-Saharan Science
I’m in Washington DC, at a World Bank meeting on science and innovation for development. A new consensus appears to be emerging amongst African leaders about the importance of building up their science, technology and innovation capacity. Yesterday we heard a series of impressive presentations from the science ministers of Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria and South Africa, all of whom are scaling up their levels of investment and ambition. Nigeria, for example, is using part of its recent...
from : jameswilsdon
16th February 2007
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FT.com / Business Life / Science & environment - Scientists urged to work with innovation hotspots
FT.com / Business Life / Science & environment - Scientists urged to work with innovation hotspots
from : mollywebb
17th January 2007
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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.
from : mollywebb
16th January 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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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.
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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Their Space
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.
from : markfuller
10th January 2007
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The Shock of the Old
Demos and Profile Books invite you to an evening discussion to mark the publication of The Shock of the Old, Wednesday 31 January 2007, 17:00 – 18:30, followed by drinks.Speakers:David Edgerton, Hans Rausing Professor of History of Science and Technology, Imperial CollegeSimon Jenkins, Journalist and authorRichard Halkett, Executive Director for Policy and Research, NESTAJames Wilsdon, Head of Science & Innovation, Demos (chair)If we had believed the hype, technology – from the...
from : mollywebb
9th January 2007
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Northern Lights seminar series
This final seminar will mark the end of an 18 month collaborative project between Sitra (the Finnish National Fund for Research and Development), Demos and Demos Finland. As well as serving as the basis for a report on social innovation and well-being, the seminar will also celebrate the 15th Anniversary of the Finnish Institute in London.
Speakers include
· Esko Aho, President (Sitra)
· Jonathan Kestenbaum, CEO (NESTA)
· Jonathan Robinson, Director (The Hub)
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from : mollywebb
20th November 2006
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The new geography of science
from : mollywebb
3rd November 2006
