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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 from 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM (GMT)
The Rt Hon. Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas, AM Presiding Officer, and Prof. Marc Clement, NESTA Trustee for Wales
invite you to a joint National Assembly for Wales and NESTA innovation event
Speaker: Charles Leadbeater, Visiting Senior Fellow, NESTA
The Difference Dividend: Why immigration is vital to innovation
We Think: The Power of Mass Creativity
Lecture begins at 6.30pm in the Conference rooms 22 and 23 followed by Q&A session
(drinks & canapés will be served)
Charles Leadbeater will talk about two of his latest publications:
The Difference Dividend: Why immigration is vital to innovation
NESTA Provocation, January 2008
"Each wave of immigration over the last century has been accompanied by a clamour for control that has grown louder, the implication being that immigrants endanger British society. What stands out is the very opposite: how much richer, more creative and innovative Britain has become because of its ability to attract immigrants and absorb what they have to give us. For a society that will depend more and more on innovation, immigrants will be a vital source of dynamism. We shut them out at our peril”.
We-think
published by Profile March 2008
Will a new culture of mass collaboration lead to enhanced creativity and ultimately, to innovation, or are we simply providing a forum for the misuse of information and for the erosion of quality?Signed copies of ‘We-Think’ will be available to purchase
Charles Leadbeater - biography
Charles Leadbeater is a leading authority on innovation and creativity. He has advised companies, cities and governments around the world on innovation strategy and drawn on that experience in writing his latest book We-think: the power of mass creativity, which charts the rise of mass, participative approaches to innovation from science and open source software, to computer games and political campaigning. Charles has worked extensively as a senior adviser to Governments over the past decade, advising the 10 Downing St policy unit, the Department for Trade and Industry and the European Commission on the rise of the knowledge driven economy and the Internet, as well as the government of Shanghai. A visiting senior fellow at NESTA, he is also a longstanding senior research associate with the influential London think-tank Demos and a visiting fellow at Oxford University's Said Business School.Other Maps:
Via Michelin | GoogleNESTA is the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. We are the largest single endowment devoted exclusively to supporting talent, innovation and creativity in the UK. Our mission is to transform the UK’s capacity for innovation. We invest in early stage companies, inform innovation policy and encourage a culture that helps innovation to flourish.
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