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Charles Leadbeater Lecture

Tuesday, April 29, 2008 from 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM (GMT)

Cardiff Bay, Cardiff

Charles Leadbeater Lecture

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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.

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National Assembly for Wales
Ty Hywel
CF991NA Cardiff Bay
United Kingdom

Tuesday, April 29, 2008 from 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM (GMT)


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