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2. Exploring Knowledge Economy and Society in Asia Indeterminate Lines in front of Hong Kong’s skyline with mostly determinate lines

3. As part of last year’s French May, BernarVenet’s bending and twisting steel lines which swirl into space play with the idea of rationality. Steel does not bend easily, but the curling lines made of Cor-ten steel, which gets a rusty surface if exposed to weather, appear freely formed and free from geometric constraints. Venet has been working on “indeterminate lines’ since the mid-seventies and his thoughts about the principles of artistic production may well apply for knowledge production: “Artistic production can only result from curious, open thought. It functions as a system whose richness consists of accepting, at one and the same time, the principles of harmony and conflict.

4. It is the competition between those two elements or givens that creates a whole; and thus the principles of anti-organization becomes a factor in the development, the indispensable dynamism of the creative process”. BernarVenet, 1976, quoted from Exhibition Catalogue, de Sarthe Gallery 2012 http://www.desarthe.com Yayoi Kusama, Accumulation of Faces No.2 1962, Collection of Barbara BertozziCastelli, © Yayoi Kusama

5. Knowledge Economy and the Arts At a major retrospective of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama at Tate Modern in London (9 February -5 June 2012), there was a collage from 1962 on display with the title “Accumulation of Faces No. 2″. It is made of newspaper clippings of faces which are connected through lines drawn with ink on paper. In the 1960s, sociologists discussed how urbanization changes the bonds between society and individuals, leading to greater interdependence and alienation. In his “Theory of Mass Society “ (1962) Daniel Bell describes how modern individuals are becoming closer but also more estranged. Kusama’s picture expresses this notion of alienation and connectedness in a striking way.

6. Artists often sense future developments in society, and this collage can perhaps be viewed as an early picture of social networks, several decades before the Internet and social media networking sites became part of our lives. A review of the opening including some of Kusama’s work can be seen herehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2012/feb/07/yayoi-kusama-tate-modern-in-pictures?CMP=OTCNETTXT8118#/?picture=385626648&index=6

7. Our research topics in 2013: Intellectual Capital of Public Sector Information(ongoing project)How can we create economic value from Public Sector Information? Following the European discourse on the Public Domain, we are carrying out research projects related to PSI and the Open Public Domain across Asia. Please visit our page on PSI Hong Kong for more information. The Role of Museums in Knowledge Societies Following the Museum and the Web conference in Philadelphia in April 2011, the role of museum in knowledge societies has become one of our research topics.

8. This year’s conference will take place in San Diego http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/conferences/mw/mw2012 In May 2012, I presented at the High-Tech Heritage Conference in Amherst, MA on “New Services through Open Public Cultural Data” Conference Theme: How are Digital Technologies Changing our Views of the Past? http://www.umass.edu/chs/news/conference2012.html AnishKapoor at the Monument, Paris, Grand Palais, June 2011, http://www.monumenta.com

9. Past events: Innovation and Knowledge Networks in Asia 8th Asialics Conference on Innovation for Sustainable Development 7-9 July 2011,  Hanoi http://asialics8-nistpass.com.vn/ Open Innovation in Cleantech in the Greater Pearl River Delta Seminar, 13 July 2011, Guangzhou For details, visit the Geography of Knowledge page

10. Asia Pacific Innovation Conference 3-4 May 2011, Singapore http://ap-in.org/ Projects and Events in 2010 The 4thInternational Future Centre Summit in Tokyo, Japan on 24-26th November 2010. The Summit is being organized by KDI (the Knowledge Dynamics Initiative of Fuji-Xerox) in collaboration with the Future Center Alliance.

11. Future Centres are innovation workspaces and labs for organizational and societal innovation in knowledge economies; the Hong Kong Foresight Centre will be represented at the event. http://summit.futurecentres.com/ Beijing: First Global World City Conference  18/19 September 2010 Organised by the Beijing Academy of Science and Technology and Beijing Research Center for Science of Science, Beijing Intellectual Property Office and many others. Local and international experts, scholars and entrepreneurs will share ideas on knowledge cities, intellectual capital of cities, the role of IP and innovation in knowledge and creative economies.

12. For more details, pleave visit http://www.bjicc.com Societal Innovation in Knowledge Economies An international experiment in Helsinki  to prototype innovative solutions to real case of society and enterprises in real time. http://vimeo.com/19013602 Interested to learn more? Click to download a new paper (August 2010) on  Societal innovation The Finnish Chamber of Commerce is organising an event on 14 October 2010.  Details Finncham on ‘Creating public-private networks of innovation’

13. India and China as emerging Knowledge Economies Our new office in  India  focusses on applied research on information society and knowledge economy developments in India and China and continue our engagement with the I-school in Mysore www.isim.ac.inFor more details, please visit our India page. Knowledge Cities – Creative Cities We are presenting a project on Creative City Mapping  at the Knowledge City World Summit, 16-19 November 2010 in Melbourne http://www.melbourneknowledgesummit.com/Home.aspx

14. Read More: http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/zennonturner-1791254-china-gdp-grow-pct-think-tank-dalian-fortune-research/ http://www.good.is/asia-joins-world-economy?full_site=1