Theme : science
- The way to go James Wilsdon reviews three new books on death and aging. from : jameswilsdon 4th March 2008
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A Brazillion and one things still to learn
Just over half way through our Atlas of Ideas fieldwork in Brazil, we’ve been to six cities and interviewed around 70 scientists, policymakers and business people about the future of science and innovation in Brazil. We’re working in partnership with Brazilian strategy and innovation think tank, CGEE. And it still feels like we are barely scratching the surface...
from : kirstenbound 4th March 2008 - Is public science a public good? Should we be worried about companies funding university science? Does it make for more innovation or is it poisoning science and blackening our ivory towers? Join us for a debate on the future of public science.We are delighted to have the following speakers Philip Moriarty, Professor of physics, University of Nottingham Ben Goldacre, Scientist and journalist Terence Kealey, Vice Chancellor University of Buckingham John Pethica, Chief Scientist, National Physical Laboratory Ian... from : jackstilgoe 3rd March 2008
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Medicine Men James Wilsdon reviews a new history of alternative medicine by Roberta Bivins from : jameswilsdon 21st October 2007