• ‘I have no idea of what’s going on, do I? 12 drawings, ink and graphite pen on paper. A4.’

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(Pics by Marc Domage)

A new way of driving R&D (presentation in Terre TV) – located near le Louvre and Palais Royal. Boundaries are blurred (e.g.  the exhibit between Ryoji Ikeda (VJ) and Benedicte Gross (Mathematician); not to mention the food lab with Thierry Marx). >>

An important signal: 3rd quarter earnings reported by BoA in Oct. 2008 were good with one notable exception – a significant increase in delinquent credit card payments. Another ‘chateau de cartes’ about to collapse…

• China’s stock market has become the most expensive in Asia, leading strategists at Citigroup Inc., HSBC Holdings Plc and UBS AG to warn investors to stay away.
• Shares traded on mainland Chinese exchanges cost twice as much relative to earnings as they did 18 months ago, and double the average for emerging markets, after extending last year’s 121 percent rally in the Shanghai and Shenzhen 300 Index.
• Funds focused on China took in $1.3 billion during the first two weeks of the year, almost triple the amount for the rest of Asia excluding Japan, according to Emerging Portfolio Fund Research Inc. in Boston

For further details refer to this article published in the NYT >>

We just finished an assignment in Ireland for a Far-east Government looking at developing its agenda for an information society.

We had to be in Ireland in June 2008, during one of the worst moments of its recent economic growth:

• Housing prices are plummeting
• Government finances are in difficulty
• Forecasts by the well-respected ESRI (Economic and Social Research Institute) indicate that the GDP will probably ease growth to minus 0.4 percent this year, down from its last forecast of 1.8 percent
• EU Lisbon treaty has been turned down in this country which has benefited economically from the EU, underlying the urgent need for clearer explanation of the whole idea/actions.

Within this challenging environment, we had the opportunity to discover some of the drivers of the Irish success and will constitute – no doubt about this- those of its resilience. We met with The Department of the Taoiseach (Prime Minister’s Dept.), were hosted by Enterprise Ireland, in particular the manager of Software, Services and Emerging Sectors. We had a very insightful briefing with Science Foundation Ireland on its role in ICT research, along with a working lunch with IDA Ireland and its activity in ICT sector. We completed our day with a visit to Forfás (National Policy and Advisory Board for Enterprise, Trade, Science, Technology and Innovation).

The hallmark was the discovery of the Digital Hub Project, supported by the Government, aiming at creating an international Center of Excellence for knowledge, innovation and creativity, with a clear focus on digital content and technology enterprises. All this is as well very much ‘brick-and-mortar’. The hub offers a physical, inspiring and full of history, working environment, in the former Guinness factories, with flexible, Georgian-style office spaces from 10 to 1000 square meters, which have been fully refurbished and redesigned for the needs of digital and innovative media companies.

We were so impressed by the ‘can-do’ attitude, the sheer optimism and pragmatic solidarity among all stakeholders. It seems to us that Ireland is up to the challenge of competing with other developed countries, no longer leveraging tax-benefits or labor costs, but as a peer. Check out the following site for further details (www.thedigitalhub.com).

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