Looking east
Science and innovation in China, India and South Korea are growing fast
Science and innovation in China, India and South Korea are growing fast. Alongside the challenge this presents to western dominance in knowledge-based industries is the opportunity for UK science to become the centre for new global innovative networks. How can HE chemistry departments embrace this challenge?
Over 300 leading scientists, from academe, and industry - from the far East, Europe and the US - met in January in London to discuss the findings of a report, The atlas of ideas: how Asian innovation can benefit us all, published by Demos an independent 'think tank' based in the UK.
For the past 18 months Demos researchers have been 'looking East', specifically at China, India and South Korea. They have covered thousands of miles and interviewed over 500 people in these countries - scientists from academe and industry, policy makers, corporate executives, and entrepreneurs - to get a real perspective of the science and innovation going on in these countries.
According to Charles Leadbeater, a senior associate of Demos, speaking at the conference: 'Our findings suggest that places which were considered "peripheral" in terms of knowledge and technology 10 years ago - Bangalore and Pune in India, Daejon in South Korea, Shanghai and Shenzhen in China - are now essential stopping off points in the continuous flow of people, ideas and technologies around the world'.
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