Kirsten Bound
Demos Associate
Kirsten Bound was a senior researcher at Demos until 2008. Her work at Demos focused on democracy and emerging science and innovation in India and Brazil. She is author of India: the uneven innovator and Brazil: the natural knowledge economy and co-author with Paul Skidmore of the Everyday Democracy Index.
- The risks of success A long procession of packed buses rumbles up the road to the Opening Session of the 93rd Indian Science Congress in Hyderabad. Security is tight. Just a few days earlier, terrorists stormed a conference at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, gunning down academics and showering the room with hand grenades, which thankfully didn?t go off. One Professor was killed and four are still in hospital.In his inaugural address, Prime Minister Manhoman Singh says the fact that science is a... continue reading on 11th January 2006 in The Atlas of Ideas
- Counterfeit Brit in the Copycat Capital It is certainly an uphill struggle throughout China to change a mindset that to some extent just doesn?t get the issue with IP. A while ago an article on the BBC (which I can?t link to because the BBC is blocked in China) told the story of the craze for amateur pop stars to record their own song in China and put it up online for everyone to hear. One particularly successful young starlet won a record deal from her performance and sold 200,000 CDs. But this was small fry compared to the 3... continue reading on 21st November 2005 in The Atlas of Ideas
- Software and spice India?s science is ?shining? in some areas, but it?s not all rosy. We waited patiently for the chairman of one session who was apparently delayed due to ?a bad case of infrastructure?, a common complaint in Delhi known to anyone who has tried to get from A to B. Come to think of it, a teleporter?s not such a bad idea ? we might even get to some of our meetings on time?The infrastructure maladie is pervasive, but the country is looking for a remedy. ?It is getting better all the time? said one... continue reading on 10th November 2005
- Open Secrets - Scaling Up Innovation Last night we held the second in the Open Secrets series of discussions that we are running with the NCSL and the DfES Innovation Unit ?this time on Scaling Up InnovationExperiences from business, from education and from social and political activism made for an interesting and wide-ranging discussion. We made some progress towards uncovering some of the methods, the mentalities, the structures and the scenarios that make it possible to bring innovations to scale.But it was clear that this is... continue reading on 11th October 2005
- A Design for Life Designing kettles is hard enough, but it's much harder to design services than kettles. The kettle has one end-user, the service could have any number. But a user isn't just a user, a user is a person with a variety of changing needs, desires, values and circumstances.For users to be effectively involved in the design of their services, we have to engage fully with this complexity and fight the urge to generalise for the sake of simplicity.Our discussion delved into this minefield,... continue reading on 13th September 2005
- All the right ingredients, but what's the recipe for Swedish Success? I'm not talking meatballs. World class achievements in innovation, legendary investment in people and a thriving export industry aren't enough to ensure Sweden's sutainable success, prosperity and global competitiveness. Although Sweden enjoyed the fourth highest GDP per capita in the 1970's, it has since slipped down to 17th place in the global rankings.Healthy conditions for innovation aren't translating into proportionate rates of entrepreneurial activity. But why?Tom and I travelled to Are... continue reading on 6th April 2005
- Back to the future How would you respond to the types of issues we are going to raise?o Where and what is the ?governance gap??o Private action, public benefit? What is the future of citizenship and responsibility?o The politics of fear. How do we cope with the diverse security challenges that face us?o One public or many? What will the public realm be like in the future?o Leadership in an uncertain world - what forces do the leaders of tomorrow need to harness for successful governance? continue reading on 3rd March 2005
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