In every corner of the world, innovation is the way mankind has moved forward, improving the quality, even the sustainability of life itself. Today, as civilization moves ever more rapidly forward, it is useful to pause and examine the nature of innovation and its prospects for the future. Our panel of global experts weighs in.
The last decade has seen an explosion of collective knowledge creation, sharing, and dissemination that has been enabled by Web 2.0 and mobile technology.
The truly disruptive and transformative seeds of this phenomenon have been planted in the world of science and that is where, if properly cultivated,
they will yield the greatest innovations in the coming decade.
Lumped under the terms Science 2.0 and Open Science, a variety of web-based collaborative platforms—open lab notebooks, data-sharing sites—are making scientific information and data more readily accessible than ever before. Moreover, the Internet has enabled massive data...