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Wednesday June 28, 2006 01:05 by Liam Mullen (Liam Ó Maoláin) - Freelance Journalist
The British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett in a speech given to the House of Commons has stated that “the global scientific landscape is now shifting”, and she has referred to the rise of India and China as highly significant. Speaking about how the New Scientist had posed the question - “Is India the new knowledge superpower? - Or of how the think-tank DEMOS had posed their question: “Is China the new science superpower?” Beckett spoke about how India is producing more science graduates than all of Europe combined, how China has tripled it’s spend on R&D over the previous five years, and of how Silicon Valley is underpinned by numerous Indian and Chinese workers. |
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Jump To Comment: 1It seems the govts of the UK and Ireland have figured that since science has delivered in the past, then maybe it's time to look at it again and put money into it.
Likewise the Chinese and Indians have already done the same. From the UK/Eire perspective, they seem to see this as a threat and would appear to be keen to enourage a brain drain to Europe from China and India hence these initiatives.
There is a lot of wishy washy talk of using science to solve Climate Change and sponsoring more research into it. Well first of all, its quite clear its happening but they (the politicians) make it sound like they are still wondering about it. The second thing is that while techy solutions will be some help what is needed and needed urgently is political action and big changes, but there is no suggestion of that.
Overall the sense from what is reported in the Beckitt science speech and the recent moves by the Irish govt to raise science spending is that it can be used to invent more gadgets and stuff for people to buy and since neither can compete in manufacturing, well then the only place to make money any more is in intellectual capital via patents.
Overall both policies seem ill thought out and in a sense are reactionary to the fear that the Chinese and Indians just might beat us hands down here too. But as I already effectively stated, there is no hint that to solve the worlds problems which would be basically Global Warming, Peak Oil, Population and widespread environmental destruction that very radical changes need to be made and made by everyone. Its very much a case of fiddling while the Titanic sinks.