The Atlas of Ideas
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The Atlas of Ideas was a three year programme at Demos, which explored changes in the global geography of science and innovation. Between 2005 and 2008, it published studies of China, India, South Korea and Brazil.
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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
- 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
- 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
- Build partnerships overseas, Blair tells universities The emergence of India and China represents an economic opportunity - not a threat, Tony Blair said today as he launched a drive to bring an extra 100,000 overseas students to the UK over the next five years from : mollywebb 26th June 2006
- The critical skills gap Infosys, the leading Indian information technology services company, is so desperate for staff that it has started recruiting in the US, where it has just hired 300 people. In China, international accountancy firms are scrambling to fill thousands of posts in a country where qualified bean counters are almost as rare as democratic elections. from : mollywebb 26th June 2006
- East Asian Science, technology and Society (EASTS): an international Journal We strongly believe that East Asian STS will offer fresh STS perspectives because of her special local experiences, sharing similar cultural and colonial history, similar meteorological and biological makeup, and similar global positions with respect to the West. from : mollywebb 26th June 2006
- White paper on political democracy (full text) White paper on political democracy (full text) from : mollywebb 10th October 2006
- The new geography of science from : mollywebb 3rd November 2006
- Power, corruption and lies | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited Power, corruption and lies | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited from : mollywebb 8th January 2007
- 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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