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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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Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: A Science of the Web Begins
Furthermore, vast emergent properties are beginning to arise on the Web, and no one is studying how they have blossomed or what they may mean for society.
from : mollywebb
29th January 2007
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Magic buttons
Coverage today from the Guardian and the B B C of yesterday's launch of the Sciencehorizons project. 8 floors up at the Royal College of Art, overlooking the Albert Hall (officially the Albert Hall of Arts and Sciences), we had Science Minister Malcolm Wicks and a group of 12 RCA students using our discussion packs for the first time. The conversation was really rich. I tried to get as many quote as possible. They covered organ donation ("If we know we can grow spares, how does that...
from : jackstilgoe
26th January 2007
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Science fears loss of its superpower ally - World - Times Online
Science fears loss of its superpower ally - World - Times Online
from : mollywebb
17th January 2007
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Demos warns Britain might get sidelined in global scienctific revolution
Demos warns Britain might get sidelined in global scienctific revolution
from : mollywebb
17th January 2007
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A new soft machine
As we gear up to tomorrow's Atlas of Ideas launch, focussing on science in China, India and Korea, I've been thinking about some new bits of world-class British science. I spent last week in a Nano-sand-pit, working with 20 of the countries leading nano-scientists on new ways of turning information into stuff (towards a sort of mini 3D printer). The Ideas Factory blog, which over the course of the week climbed into Wordpress's top-ten, attracting over 100 comments, has just announced one of...
from : jackstilgoe
16th 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
