by Andrew Maynard | Nov 30, 2010 | Emerging Technology, Policy, Technology Innovation
In an interconnected world, global issues demand integrative solutions. It’s a statement that many people would agree with – in systems where associations between cause and effect are complex, you ignore synergistic inter-relationships between factors at...
by Andrew Maynard | Nov 19, 2009 | Emerging Technology, Policy, Recommended
For the next three days I will be participating in and blogging from the World Economic Forum Summit on the Global Agenda in Dubai. If last year’s summit – described as the “World’s largest brainstorming” – is anything to go by,...
by Andrew Maynard | Nov 15, 2008 | Nanotechnology, Policy
As world leaders congregate in Washington DC this weekend for the G20 summit on the global financial crisis, discussions will be informed in part by what has been described as the “biggest brainstorming on the global agenda that has ever taken place.” I mention this...