Tag: universities
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UK’s industrial strategy requires more university funding
The UK is running out of ideas. We are getting low on breakthroughs. Far fewer cries of “eureka” are being heard throughout the country. And, for the future of our economy, this is a real problem. The government’s White Paper on the industrial strategy is aimed at firing innovation in the fields of science, technology,…
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Does Creativity Breed Inequality in Cities?
In 2002, Richard Florida became America’s best known urbanist with the publication of his book, The Rise of the Creative Class. In it, Florida posited that the “creative class,” a group which included artists, scientists and engineers, as well as educated knowledge sector professionals such as lawyers and finance workers, was the main driver of cultural…