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New Program Announcement: Science in Place
The global map of science and technology innovation is changing quickly. But it’s not just macroeconomics and demographics that is driving this tectonic shift in how scientific collaboration is organized globally, regionally, in cities and within buildings. Everywhere we turn, new structures are challenging the way research organizations create and apply new knowledge, and where they do it.
While science and innovation policy in the 20th century was largely shaped by the priorities of national governments, the fragmentation of research institutions into research networks both demands and enables a more fine-grained approach focused at the regional, local and architectural scales. As research models shift, new adjacencies will drive the policies and designs for supporting structures.
Science In Place will systematically forecast the significant challenges and emerging opportunities for a broad range of organizations from the public, private, academic and NGO sectors in this shifting landscape of science and innovation. We will bring deep knowledge of long-range future trends in science and technology to work with organizations to develop new strategic insights for designing future places to do science.
IFTF is currently seeking charter members for Science In Place for 2008-2009. To learn more , please contact Anthony Townsend at [email protected] or +1-650-233-9522
Download the full program announcement and prospectus below.