SOC356Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Derek J. De Solla Price, African Development Bank, Brainpower
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Canada"s efforts to strengthen its talent and skills supply for the knowledge economy have been transformations over the past decade, driven by immigration policy, global trends, and new science and technology investments. Centered on building a knowledge culture with an assessment of selected strengths, gaps, and weaknesses while providing a commentary on the broader global effort. Guidelines on how canada will need to build on existing infrastructure and governance. Quote: to go beyond the bounds of absurdity, another couple of centuries of normal growth of science would give us dozens of scientists per man, woman, child and dog of the world population. Yale historian of science derek de solla price (1975): was intrigued with saturated state of science and the explosion of scientific knowledge as measured by the exponential production of knowledge via papers and journals. He was not claiming the end of science, rather he was merely addressing an issue.
