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Theme : science
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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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The synthesizer
Demos has this morning hosted a round table with Craig Venter, controversial human genome projecteer and now spearhead of the next Next Big Thing: Synthetic Biology (or Synthetic Genomics if you prefer). Venter was engagingly open about the possibilities and pitfalls of Syn Bio, which promises to combine engineering with biology to design new lifeforms. He pointed to the possibilities of energy and fuel generation from new organisms and warned us that, if an innovative Siberian happened upon...
from : jackstilgoe
23rd October 2007
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Medicine Men
James Wilsdon reviews a new history of alternative medicine by Roberta Bivins
from : jameswilsdon
21st October 2007
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Innovation in the Islamic world
I've written a piece for the FT today on the prospects for innovation in the Islamic world. This is a curtain-raiser for a new project that we'll be launching in February 2008 to map the changing dynamics of science and technology-based nnovation across the 57 member states of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference. We'll be doing this in partnership with the OIC, the journal Nature and others. Send me an email if you'd like to know more, or visit the Atlas of Ideas project page.
from : jameswilsdon
19th October 2007
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People Power?
A Demos and Greenpeace workshop for European NGOs and others to share and learn from experiences of public participation in issues involving science.
from : jackstilgoe
17th October 2007
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Pro-Poor innovation
The latest issue of id21, published by our friends from the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex University, is just out. It includes an article on our nanodialogue in Zimbabwe, and another on our Atlas research on China. Plus biotech in Bangalore, social entrepreneurs in Kenya and rural innovation in Nepal - all this and more can be found here.
from : jameswilsdon
27th September 2007
