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…
The G20 group of the world’s most important economies are poised to make an unprecedented announcement: the earth would stop turning if certain banks went bankrupt. According to British daily The Financial Times, the G20 will unveil a list of 20 banks it considers literally “too big to fail”, when the group meets in Seoul,…
The 21st century will not be dominated by America or China, Brazil or India, but by the city. In an age that appears increasingly unmanageable, cities rather than states are becoming the islands of governance on which the future world order will be built. This new world is not — and will not be —…