Brazil: The Natural Knowledge-Economy
08 Jul
The Atlas of Ideas 2.0
- Date and time:
- Tuesday, 8th July 2008 at 10:30am
- Location:
- The Institute of Engineering & Technology, Savoy Place, London, WC2R 0BL UK
1030am until 1pm, 8th July 2008 at the IET, Savoy Place, London
Speakers:
Andrew Cahn, Chief Executive, UK Trade and Investment
H.E. Carlos Augusto R. Santos-Neves, Brazilian Ambassador to the UK
Charles Leadbeater, Author of 'We-Think' & Demos Associate
Fernando Rizzo, Director, The Centre for Strategic Studies and Management, Brazil
Luiz Augusto Horta Nogueira, Bioenergy expert, Itajubá Federal School of Engineering, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Kirsten Bound, Senior Researcher, Demos
Launch of a new Demos pamphlet, followed by a panel discussion with UK and Brazilian thinkers and policymakers.
The landscape for innovation in Brazil is changing fast. R&D budgets are rising. Brazilian researchers are at the forefront of developments from biofuels to human genomics and ITC. And Brazil is now the 15th largest producer of scientific publications, up eight places in under a decade.
But in the UK and Europe, Brazil’s innovation capabilities are less well understood than those of its ‘BRIC’ counterparts China and India. So what are the real prospects for science, technology and innovation in Brazil over the next ten years? And how can we scale up collaboration with its new centres of excellence?
Demos will publish the results of six months of extensive fieldwork and interviews with leading Brazilian innovators, scientists and policymakers, undertaken in partnership with the Brasilia-based think tank CGEE. The launch will include a panel discussion with UK and Brazilian thinkers and policymakers.
To request a space for this event, please RSVP to: atlasofideas@demos.co.uk
This project is part of The Atlas of Ideas 2.0. Demos is grateful to UKTI, Microsoft Research, NESTA, the British Council and The IET for their generous support and to CGEE for a valuable research partnership.
Speakers:
Andrew Cahn, Chief Executive, UK Trade and Investment
H.E. Carlos Augusto R. Santos-Neves, Brazilian Ambassador to the UK
Charles Leadbeater, Author of 'We-Think' & Demos Associate
Fernando Rizzo, Director, The Centre for Strategic Studies and Management, Brazil
Luiz Augusto Horta Nogueira, Bioenergy expert, Itajubá Federal School of Engineering, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Kirsten Bound, Senior Researcher, Demos
Launch of a new Demos pamphlet, followed by a panel discussion with UK and Brazilian thinkers and policymakers.
The landscape for innovation in Brazil is changing fast. R&D budgets are rising. Brazilian researchers are at the forefront of developments from biofuels to human genomics and ITC. And Brazil is now the 15th largest producer of scientific publications, up eight places in under a decade.
But in the UK and Europe, Brazil’s innovation capabilities are less well understood than those of its ‘BRIC’ counterparts China and India. So what are the real prospects for science, technology and innovation in Brazil over the next ten years? And how can we scale up collaboration with its new centres of excellence?
Demos will publish the results of six months of extensive fieldwork and interviews with leading Brazilian innovators, scientists and policymakers, undertaken in partnership with the Brasilia-based think tank CGEE. The launch will include a panel discussion with UK and Brazilian thinkers and policymakers.
To request a space for this event, please RSVP to: atlasofideas@demos.co.uk
This project is part of The Atlas of Ideas 2.0. Demos is grateful to UKTI, Microsoft Research, NESTA, the British Council and The IET for their generous support and to CGEE for a valuable research partnership.
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