Knowledge is power – economic power – and there’s a scramble for that power
Knowledge clusters” are being built in France to kick start hi-tech industries In the United States, Europe and in rising powers such as China, there is a growth-hungry drive to invest in hi-tech research and innovation. They are looking for the ingredients that, like Google, will turn a university project into a corporation. They are…
Sustainability of Mankind
It is important to put a price on nature Jan 18th 2010 THE insight that nature provides services to mankind is not a new one. In 360 BC Plato remarked on the helpful role that forests play in preserving fertile soil; in their absence, he noted, the land was turned into desert, like the bones…