Cooperation with Kyrgyzstan and the CIS Nations
				During November 2004 WIF representatives were the guests of the Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic. This was to celebrate their 50th anniversary as an academy and where all the Presidents of the Academy of Sciences from the twelve CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) nations (including Russia) participated over the 4-day of scientific events. The photograph shows the leader of the Kyrgyz Republic Academician Dr. Askar Akaev addressing the Academy of Sciences and many international guests. WIF representatives had meetings with high ranking government officials whilst attending the conference with a view to create a long-term cooperative agreement with regard to science, engineering, technology and economics. Contact and discussions with the Government of Kyrgyzstan are ongoing and where further details will be available in the next Edition of the Scientific Discovery newsletter.
Conference address By Dr. David Hill, Chief Executive of the World Innovation Foundation (27 November 2004 in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic) On the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary Celebrations of the Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic and before The Presidents of Sciences of the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) "Your Excellency and distinguished guests, I am greatly honoured by speaking to you today on the occasion of your nation’s celebrations dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic. Just one week ago I was in the company of Mikael Gorbachev at the annual gathering of Nobel Peace Laureates. His speeches are as invigorating as ever and I am sure that if he were with us he would offer his warmest greetings to the nation of Kyrgyzstan and to all the CIS national academy presidents who are here today. Although I can totally support your nation’s assertion that education is a prerequisite for economic prosperity I shall talk to you today about the step after this and how education mixed with creativity can drive your future economies. Science is the great universal resource and leveller of humankind. Scientists and engineers of every nation in the world understand each other through mathematics and the knowledge of the physical and abstract worlds. Chinese scientist with scientists from the United States work in cooperative scientific endeavour together and which is so for any joint or multilateral engagements in science. Scientific endeavour and discovery are therefore the great bonding agents of humankind. I therefore start my address to by stating that the most powerful and evolutionary force in the universe is that of ‘Creative Thought’. Everything that human civilization undertakes is controlled by the inner thoughts of mankind. Without this inherent force of creativity that resides in all humanity, no progress would be attained or indeed sustained. It is the thoughts of humankind that drives forward the frontiers of science and human civilization itself. The world is beginning to witness a great sea change in economic power. In less than 20 years time on its present path, China will become the dominant economic power on our planet and where the USA will be ranked the 2nd largest economy in the world. By 2040 India, where I was in discussions last year with one of our members Dr Chidambaram, a cabinet minister and the chief scientific adviser to the prime minister and the government of India, will have become the third most powerful economy in the world. Indeed, it was one of our members, His Excellency Jian Song the former vice-premier of China who initiated this great change and who is the architect of China’s industrial development. For it was professor Song who created China’s industrial ‘blueprint’ and which has been totally built upon through the application of science and technology. I hope to be with him and others in China next year. Many of the CIS nations are in close proximity to these merging economic powers and where they are very well placed to exploit the situation to there fullest in future years. Therefore what does this economic transition mean for the rest-of-the-world over the next three to four decades. Well, those who do not understand the vital significance of science will not get very far but where those nations who embrace science will transform their economies into world-leading economies. One has only to look back to relatively new nations such as Singapore who were little more than four decades ago living in abject squalor and poverty, but who’s leadership realised that technology was the base of all new wealth creation. Singapore now has one of the highest living standards in the world and where China has taken great note I believe. Indeed, Singapore and not Hong Kong has possibly been the minnow that China initially began to understand what mechanism creates great wealth. In this respect Singapore started by copying the world’s technologies, very much like what Japan did a few decades ago, but where they had the direct advantage of lower labour costs. I respectfully state that the CIS countries have many of the same attributes now that can be seen as great strengths if they can exploit these opportunities successfully. But China has like the rest-of-the-world not moved as yet into the same dimension and mindset that created the first Industrial Revolution in my country. This unparalleled economic revolution in the history of the world, as it was the first, happened over a mere 50-years in the early part of the 19th century. But this did not only make Britain the largest and most powerful economy in the world by far in a mere half century, but also provided much of the basis of the modern world that we all see today. This difference was not I respectfully tell you my friends from the endeavours of engineers and scientists like myself but was in the main the fruits of what might be termed as ‘amateur’ scientists. This may seem a strange parody but in this respect I now give several examples of what I mean, some from the past and some from the present day. I therefore start this part of my address by stating that creativity resides in every person on our planet and where this pre-eminent human resource has made the modern what it is today and what it shall be tomorrow. Without it, humankind’s very existence could not continue indefinitely. Just a few examples of people who have changed the world are, Example 1: Frank Whittle – Inventor of the Jet Engine His father was a mechanic and Whittle came from a working-class background. He became an RAF Officer before WW2. The British Establishment and Industry would not take any notice of his revolutionary thinking. It took Whittle 10-years to convince them but thereafter he created a whole new global industry. Where would we be today without Whittle’s great invention. Probably not here for one. Whittle was an RAF officer-engineer who had great insight and intuition but was not a scientist. Example 2: William Grove – Inventor and 'Father of the Fuel-Cell' He was a Welsh circuit judge and amateur scientist in his spare time. Grove is the ‘Father of the Fuel-Cell who experimented as a hobby. Although at the time he could not achieve an efficient fuel-cell for commercial use, he was the first to invent the fuel-cell and thereby created the basis of a new 21st century global industry. He was a lawyer by profession and not a scientist. Example 3: Russell Ohl – Inventor of the silicon solar cell Ohl was a working-class employee for Bell Labs. The management at Bell Labs tried several times to dissuade him from this research direction. If they had the company would not have created such a revolutionary invention/product. Ohl through his own thinking and intuition created the basis of a whole new technological industry. Example 4: Tim Paterson – Inventor of Q-DOS (MS-DOS) Paterson was just a worker/programmer for a small computer products company who created Q-DOS for his own use. He sold the rights to Q-DOS to Bill Gates for US$50,000 who renamed it MS-DOS and where this can be said was the world’s best investment move ever in modern history. Paterson ended up simply working for Microsoft and where he still works today. The software that made Microsoft what it is today. Indeed, without MS-DOS it is doubtful if Bill Gates could have developed Microsoft into the world-leader that it is today, as the catalyst would simply have never existed for him. Paterson created the basis of a new global company that presently ranks the 2nd largest in the world. Example 5: Louis Paul Cailletet – Inventor of the mechanism that allows the Liquefication of oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and air Jet Engine Cailletet was an ironworker in his father’s iron foundry and was the First person to liquefy these natural gases. This process created a new global industry servicing a diverse array of industries from health to energy. Example 6: Tim Berners-Lee – Inventor of the World Wide Web (WWW) Berners-Lee worked in a sawmill for extra cash during his studies at university. He was a free-lance software engineer undertaking a short six-month term at the CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, in Geneva. CERN did not ask Berners-Lee to invent the www nor did they invent it as some people may think. Berners-Lee was in his spare time doodling around with a way to organize his far-flung notes. He had always been interested in programs that dealt with information in a "brain-like way" but that could improve upon that occasionally memory-constrained organ. So he devised a piece of software that could, as he put it, keep "track of all the random associations one comes across in real life and brains are supposed to be so good at remembering but sometimes mine wouldn't." He called it Enquire, short for ‘Enquire Within Upon Everything’, a Victorian-era encyclopaedia he remembered from childhood. He continued in his own time and eventually created the WWW all by himself. Therefore Berners-Lee could have been working for anyone at the time when he invented the www and it was only by sheer chance that he was temporarily employed by the CERN at the time, but where the CERN played no physical part in one of the greatest inventions of all time. Indeed, unlike so many of the inventions that have moved the world, this one truly was the work of one man. Thomas Edison got credit for the light bulb, but he had dozens of people in his lab working on it. William Shockley may have fathered the transistor, but two of his research scientists actually built it. And if there ever was a thing that was made by committee, it was the Internet with all its protocols and packet switching. But the World Wide Web is Berners-Lee's alone. He designed it, personally let it loose on the world and he more than anyone else has fought to keep it open, non-proprietary and free. Economists say that if he had kept it for himself, he would have been the richest person ever in the history of the world by far. Example 7: Michael Faraday – 'Father of Electricity' Faraday came from a poor working-class family and was the son of a lowly blacksmith. He only had a rudimentary education up to the age of 14 years and started out in life as an errand boy working for a London bookbinder. Faraday’s many inventions allowed the production of electricity at will and where the modern world could not operate without these vital technologies. Indeed, his discoveries and inventions are the basis of all modern electromagnetic technology. Therefore Faraday can be rightly titled the ‘Father’ of Electricity’. Overall he created the basis for one of the largest global industries and where possibly he invented the greatest invention of all time. If anyone epitomises the role of the working man in science Faraday has to be that person, for from very humble beginnings he single-handedly laid the foundations of an industry that we cannot do with out and especially now in the 21st century. Example 8: Joseph Aspdin – Inventor of Portland Cement Aspdin was the eldest son of a bricklayer. He called the cement Portland cement because it resembled Portland stone. Created the basis of a new global industry. Example 9: Joseph Monier – Inventor of Reinforced Concrete Monier was a gardener by trade who made garden pots and tubs of concrete reinforced with an iron mesh. Besides his pots and tubs, he promoted reinforced concrete for use in railway ties, pipes, floors, arches, and bridges. We laid the foundations of a modern construction industry. Example 10: John Logie Baird – Inventor of the Television When Baird was twelve years of age he built his own telephone. He was an amateur radio-ham (in other words he tinkered with radio equipment). Baird was 34 years old when he started building his "Televisor" system. Working on a shoestring budget, he built his first device using objects found in the attic where he was experimenting. An old tea chest was used to support the electric motor that turned the discs. The discs themselves were cut out of cardboard. Other parts were mounted upon pieces of scrap lumber. His lens came from an old bicycle lamp. Glue, sealing wax and wire held the device together. He created One of the most important inventions ever and thereby the basis of one of the world’s largest industries. Example 11: Philo Farnsworth – Inventor of the Modern Television Farnsworth came from a working-class agricultural family and he lived on a small farm. Indeed, for all those who are inclined to think of our last century as an era of the common man, let it be noted that the inventor of one of the century's greatest machines was a man called Philo Taylor Farnsworth. Even more, he was actually born in a log cabin, rode to high school on horseback and, without benefit of a university degree, conceived the idea of electronic television — the moment of inspiration coming, according to legend, while he was tilling a potato field back and forth with a horse-drawn harrow and realized that an electron beam could scan images the same way, line by line, just as you read a book. He came up with his ideas whilst still a schoolboy and by the age of 20 years demonstrated his invention to the world. Example 12: Vladimir Zworykin – Creator of Television for Mass Usage Zworykin was a Russian immigrant who went to the USA to create his dream - mass television for the people. His 'storage principle' is the basis of modern TV. He was an apprentice boat ferry operator on his father’s boat across the river Oka in Russia. He eagerly helped repair electrical equipment, and it soon became apparent that he was more interested in electricity than anything nautical. Example 13: Ralph Teetor – Inventor of Cruise Control in Automobiles Teetor was a blind mechanical engineer who was in the top three in his class at university and totally blind from the age of five. Example 14: Ray Tomlinson – Inventor of E-Mail Tomlinson was and still is today a software engineer working for BBN Technologies, a subsidiary of Verizon Communications. He didn't make a big deal of his breakthrough. "When he showed to his colleague Jerry Burchfiel, he said, "Don't tell anyone! This isn't what we're supposed to be working on", as he was afraid that his personal interest would get him in trouble with his employer. Tomlinson was an ordinary computer engineer just doing his job but where he tried to made life easier or himself and created for his own person use the software that we now call E-Mail. Indeed, he created one of the biggest communications phenomena almost by accident. At the time he didn't know he was creating something important. When asked how he did it he mused, "I think I may have just dragged my fingers across the keyboard". In 1971 he was tinkering with a programme that allowed staff at ARPANET to leave messages for each other. He'd been working on an experimental computer program called CYPNET that transferred files between linked computers, and thought it would be a neat idea if you could transfer messages as well as files. He chose the ‘@’ symbol to mark the difference between a message that needed to go to a mailbox on the local computer and one that was headed out onto the network. Typically, he told his colleagues about it via the mail system and it caught on like wildfire but believe it or not it took his employer ARPANET five-years to realised what a hot property they wee sat on. Example 15: Thomas Edison – The Most Prolific Inventor of all Time (Photo of Edison with Henry Ford who initially worked for Edison in one of his factories) Edison was the youngest of seven children with little going for him as a child and in poor health. At the age of 12-years he lost nearly all his hearing. This major disablement that persisted throughout his life made him more solitary and shy in dealings with others. Therefore organizations should take note that disabled people can be the very people who they should hire. Edison’s example proves that all people have immeasurable skills. Indeed, skills that can eventually spawn the largest company in the world. Edison had only rudimentary education as a child and was according to his school teacher a poor student. Thereafter with only 3-months of formal education his mother took him from his school and taught him at home. With no formal learning qualifications he started out in working life as a railroad bell-boy (selling newspapers and candy) and of course with no technical knowledge whatsoever. At an early age he showed a fascination for mechanical things and for chemical experiments. He set up in the baggage car of his train what could be called his first laboratory for his chemistry experiments and a printing press, where he started the "Grand Trunk Herald", the first newspaper published on a train. The largest company in the world General Electric (GE) can trace back through its history and beginning to the companies formed by Thomas Edison. His famous quotation was that, "Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration”. Edison was a totally self-educated scientist and engineer of the first-order. By the time of his death he had obtained 1,093 United States patents, the most issued to any individual ever. Example 16: William Moggridge – Inventor of the Laptop Computer Moggridge started a small design firm on his own. One of his commissions was to design a small compact computer that could move with you when you moved. Moggridge’s work created the first laptop and where he was a small working businessman and not a scientist. Example 17: Gordon Gould – Inventor of the Laser Gould dropped out of university to concentrate on his personal thinking and to exploit its commercial potential. He was an independent inventor where his mechanically minded mother encouraged him to be innovative and make things with his hands. Later through such encouragement Gould conceived and designed one of the most significant inventions of the 20th century, the laser. Now countless practical applications of lasers have been established, including welding, scanning and surgery. Indeed, Gould’s ground breaking work created a whole new multi-global industry. Example 18: Steve Jobs – Inventor of the Personal Computer Jobs was an orphan adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. After comprehending were the world was going Jobs started work in his father’s family garage making the new computers that would change his life for ever and managed to make his first "killing" when the Byte Shop in Mountain View bought his first fifty fully assembled computers. On that basis the Apple Corporation was founded, the name based on his favourite fruit. Apple changed people's idea of a computer from a gigantic and inscrutable mass of vacuum tubes only used by big business and the government to a small box used by ordinary people. His thinking literally revolutionized the computer hardware and software industry. Example 19: Jack Kilby – Inventor of the Integrated Circuit Kilby began his career as a rather undistinguished scientist. He couldn't get into Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and he got consistently average grades as an undergraduate at the University of Illinois. But barely ten years after he graduated from college he independently invented an integrated chip, the kind of chip that today resides in the heart of every computer. Kilby did this by incorporating all the necessary electronic components onto a single crystal of silicon. He never obtained a PhD but became one of the greatest electrical engineers of all time. Example 20: Robert Norton Noyce – Inventor of the Integrated Circuit Noyce’s father was a preacher and he was the third of four boys. As a child he showed an early interest in tinkering and figuring out how things work for himself. Noyce had no interest in pure research and was an inventor by heart. He started the INTEL Corporation, the 9th largest company in the world with a shareholder value of US$185 Billion at 26th July 2004. He learned from his former employer’s mistakes and he gave his young bright employees phenomenal room to accomplish what they wished, in many ways defining the Silicon Valley working style itself. Example 21: Kary Banks Mullis – Inventor of the Polymerase chain Reaction (PCR) Mullis was brought up on a small country farm where none of the family had ever been interested in science. Other than a scientist he is a surfer and considered an "intellectual maverick" by many. He conceived and developed the idea of PCR and where that idea was not the product of a painstaking laboratory discipline, but was conceived while cruising in a Honda Civic car on Highway 128 from San Francisco to Mendocino. "I do my best thinking while driving," the scientist once explained. For this brilliant idea born at the speed of 50 m.p.h., he received a $10,000 bonus from his employer Cetus, with whom he eventually parted ways. He now lives in a small apartment across from Windansea Beach. Once in a while in the world of science there comes an idea or a tool so ingenious that it revolutionizes the way people ask questions, .PCR is one of these technologies. It has not only made a tremendous impact on the scientific community, but it has also affected many aspects of our everyday lives. The Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), which he devised, has quite literally revolutionized DNA technology. PCR amplifies specific DNA sequences from very small amounts of complex genetic material. The amplification produces an almost unlimited number of highly purified DNA molecules suitable for analysis or manipulation. PCR has allowed screening for genetic and infectious diseases. Analysis of DNAs from different populations, including DNA from extinct species, has allowed the reconstruction of phylogenetic trees including primates and humans. PCR is essential to forensics and paternity testing. Invention Impact It has had a major impact on molecular biology, medicine, forensics, molecular palaeontology, and many related fields. PCR immediately spread to laboratories around the world where DNA chemistry was performed. PCR technology has grown into a mult-Billion dollar a year industry. His employer Cetus later sold the technology to La Roche for $300,000,000 in 1991. But theses my dear friends are not just isolated cases but the normal situation of who invents significant technological products and even in our modern world today. Basically therefore in this respect we have forgotten the basis of all creation and where we have to re-engage with this pre-eminent driving force of human endeavour that served the first industrial revolution so very well. Indeed, I truly believe that this is what God possibly intended for us all. Therefore those nations who realise this and that the 21st century and beyond requires a totally holistic approach will excel. But those who do not comprehend this philosophy will not. It is as simple as that. Therefore what we see from this information above is that many of the world’s most prolific inventions that now drive all advanced economies did not stem from institutional science but from individuals, both men and women, who had a driving force to unravel and create new and meaningful things. This does not belittle you and me as professional engineers and scientists. Indeed, we are the ones who provide the basic breakthroughs through scientific discovery that allows these creative individuals to flourish and where our work is of paramount importance, as without it there is no further progress throughout the world-at-large. But I have to say in all truth that we as leading scientists and engineers are very poor catalysts in transforming our newly found knowledge into meaningful inventions. This is where I wish to enlighten your knowledge further today. The future world in this century will create global technologies that are unimaginable today. Indeed, what we see as our most advanced technologies now will be seen at the turn of this century as basically primitive technologies. Within our institution we have in consultation the scientific leaders of the two firms that created the most prolific inventions of the 20th century. Those companies are Texas Instruments and Bell Labs and where the inventions that I allude to were the ubiquitous ‘transistor’ and the ‘integrated circuit’. The reason I say that these two inventions were the greatest inventions of the last century is because they have provided the basis of a new global industry within a mere fifty plus years that now turns over in excess of US$1.7 trillion annually. Indeed, no other inventions have come close to this production of wealth creation in such a short a period of time in any century, as even the productive use of electricity took over a century to unfold. Therefore if a nation can capture such future inventions and keep the benefits of such inventions within their grasp, a nation will have the propensity to create highly successful economies. This my dear friends in science is where the future resides. Indeed, in this respect we have to fully understand how we can obtain these new economic miracles that will come as night follows day. I now state that the present world order is insular. What I mean by this is that academia (university research), government (research facilities) and industry (R&D facilities) keep their involvement exclusively to themselves or with limited collaboration with others. To all intents and purposes their research effort is in-house and where the amateur scientist or lone inventor is not allowed to enter into these insular domains. But what nations should really be providing in future years is the creative infrastructure for an inclusive system and where the people’s creative thinking and a nations research effort are totally bound together. Indeed, this is where the true secret of future wealth resides and where all successful nations in this century will require the full thinking and participation of their nation’s people. And this is where Kyrgyzstan like all of the new former Russian states can break into this future way of forging a wealthy economy in years to come for their people, as you have not as yet been affected by Western ideals and the rigid structures that they adhere to. Indeed, if you comprehend what I say today you have nothing to fear in future years for your vision and strategy will be that of the future. So how shall we create this successful future that your nation and your people require? Anyone with a modicum of common sense should after understanding the history of science and technology comprehend that scientific institutions (your universities), industry and the people’s thoughts should flourish together and not in isolation. For without the input of the people’s creative thinking the ‘innovation chain’ is not complete, is positively broken and cannot excel. My institution has therefore started to put forward to all governments around the world that they should build what we have termed the ‘people’s incubators’. What this means is that a nation’s indigenous scientists and engineers have to involve their people’s creative thinking in their nation’s economic development, for if they do not, they will be missing the vital and crucial link that will provide the future world with immense wealth. If you do this we on our part as a world-leading consultative institution would act as a technological sifting mechanism, identifying which creative thinking of your people (including those of your professional scientists, amateur scientists and inventors) will give your scientists and industries the successful technological products that they look for throughout this century. I cannot stress more the importance of such a strategy for your nation and for all those former states of the Soviet Union who are represented here today. You have also to comprehend and remember that if you go down this path of global destiny, my institution that embodies the world’s leading scientists and where our first president was Nobel Laureate Glenn T. Seaborg will help you. Glenn Seaborg pointing to Element 106 Seaborgium, named in his honour whilst he was still alive. Those of you who do not know who Dr. Seaborg was I will inform you a little. He was the person who is accredited with the discovery of nearly 10% of the universe’s Elements including Plutonium, the scientific adviser to no less than ten presidents of the United States and the only person in the history of humankind who was given the unique distinction of having a new Element, Element 106 Seaborgium named in his honour whilst he was still alive. Other great scientists such as Einstein, Curie and Rutherford et al where all given this highest scientific honour, even higher than a Nobel Prize, when they were deceased. But other than creating the Atomic bomb with Oppenheimer, Glenn was ironically one of the world’s great humanitarians. In this respect he and others implored President Truman and the military only to use the device as an example and to drop the ‘bomb’ on an isolated and uninhabited area of Japan. His pleadings with others (including Einstein) fell on deaf ears, but he certainly tried his levelled best as a scientist of the first order to prevent the enormous devastation that the ‘bombs’ produced on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki when they were detonated. Indeed, only one legacy of Glenn Seaborg’s humanitarian work was that the isotopes that kill Cancer and save millions of lives each and every year are those very isotopes in the main that Glenn Seaborg created. I now go on to the means by which to establish the right 'Creative Infrastructure' within the CIS nations.
				My institution's ORE-Incubator Centres linking the people's creative thoughts with Government, Academia and Industry bring into being a whole new dimension to future economic development. In this respect no nation as yet has adopted such a revolutionary way of thinking, but which will be the norm, not only in this century but also in the 22nd century and beyond. The history of science and technology has shown that the mentality and thinking of advanced nations is based upon the technological exploitation of scientific phenomena. Indeed, the modern world has been constructed on this basis. But, unfortunately the mechanism of how the modern world has evolved is not fully understood. Indeed, if we go back in time and research into who actually made the modern world what it is toady we will find that over 80% of the inventions that have physically changed the world came not from leading scientific institutions but from amateur scientists, engineers and independent commercial inventors. The history of humankind is full of such people.
Therefore if the CIS nations have the foresight and great intuition to comprehend that by joining the CIS’s great scientists and engineers with the people and the world’s leading scientific minds, the CIS will have the propensity to lead the world and not to follow. Indeed, if the CIS nations construct the mechanism to create the right cooperative environment between respective states, their countries can become in less than thirty-years a centre of economic dynamism. We as scientists of the first-order greatly believe this. In this respect therefore if the political will of the Commonwealth of Independent States is there, this goal becomes practically achievable; but only we stress, by bringing together the concepts put forward here today. In this respect by integrating the physical resources of the CIS nations, their people’s creative thoughts, their industries and their academic institutions and linking them all with the leading-edge advice from the world’s foremost scientific and technological minds, you will create what your people aspire to. Indeed, whole new indigenous technologies can have the direct action of creating whole new global industries. These Open Research Establishment Centres that I talk about when fully developed will form a global network of ‘linked’ creative research centres allowing the thoughts of humankind to flourish. They are designed as interactive research incubators for the development of the indigenous socio-economic strengths of nations. Overall, these centres of excellence provided access for the release of humankind’s creative thinking.
Composition of the ORE-Incubator Centres Each incubator centre comprises of fourteen separate incubator laboratories that are serviced by around sixty qualified scientists and engineers and have a Centre Director. These incubator centres are equipped with the technology applicable to the particular indigenous people and nation. Where a new scientific phenomenon is discovered that has the potential of creating immense wealth, the incubator concerned is given special resources to install the relevant technology and global collaboration is set in motion. When the technology is developed into commercial products the wealth is shared between the host nation, any participating nations and the global corporations that have collaborated with the specific development programme. The only reason for the centres is to provide ‘new’ wealth distribution for poor countries and the world-at-large and where this unique collaborative global arrangement is an equitable system. What we mean by this is that eventually all nations achieve the same quality of life across the world. These centres have integrated computer systems linking all other incubators, their researchers and the indigenous inventors together. Within the centres there are management, administration and accounting units that deal with the day-to-day functioning of the incubators. These incubator centres are fully functioning with rest rooms, dining areas and normal facilities associated with modern research centres so that people from different disciplines can interact at any one time. Centre Personnel Director - The centre's Director is a qualified engineer or a scientist with where possible an engineering bias. His or her finest quality is that of a continual devotion to scientific invention and discovery. The director has an overriding concern for creating all things new that produce 'new' wealth for the well-being of the indigenous people. Creativity is seen as the most sort after quality in the centre's Director. Research Engineers and Scientists – The research staff comprise of qualified hands-on engineers and scientists working within the industrial application sectors. Management and Administrations – A centre manager functions over the day-to-day running of the centres including control of the reception area, accounts, security, cleaning and hygiene activities, kitchen / canteen / restaurant personal, maintenance staff, conference organising and management. External Advisers The centres will all be advised by many of the world's leading scientists and engineers including at the present time seventy-three unique individuals who have Nobel Prizes. In this respect also our global network is possibly the most prolific contact system of leading interactive minds in the world today. Each centre will have a specific advisory board of six leading scientists and six leading engineers from throughout the world. The advisory board in turn will have access to the full advisory membership of my institution's immense scientific network of contacts across the globe. Indeed, these leading-edge advisors will act as a unique sifting mechanism for all new developments and discoveries. And where in this respect and in concert our membership network now extends to over three million scientists, engineers, technologists and inventors. Each centre would also be interlinked with other incubator centres so that collaboration and scientific help can be fully activated between these uniquely and functional centres of excellence. External Collaboration Collaboration with all the universities associated with the members of my institution can also be put in place. In this respect my Foundation has over fifty vice-chancellors and Rectors from many parts of the world within consultation. These people represent some of the finest universities that humankind has created to date and where some were formed many centuries ago. Therefore secondment of specialist knowledge is therefore achievable from many innovative channels of communication. Indeed, several of our members are presently driving or have in recent years overseen the global research effort for such industrial concerns as BP, Philips, Lucent Technologies (Bell Labs), GlaxoSmithKline, Du Pont, Texas Instruments, British Telecom. In this respect we can bring these people and corporations to bear down on your nation's economic development and thereby build upon your country's indigenous strengths. I therefore conclude my speech and address by stating that if Kyrgyzstan and the CIS nations take up this challenge you will be supported by many of the world’s socially conscious-led scientists who only wish for nations like Kyrgyzstan and those of the CIS countries to be provided with a good and accomplished life for their people. Indeed together, if we can help in the creation of the indigenous future wealth of the CIS over the coming years, we shall in a small way have created a better future world, where wars and poverty can hopefully be banished forever. Thank you. Dr. David Hill MSc (Eng.) MBA PhD Hon.DSc FWIF CMgr FCMI CBld MCIOB FRSA Chief Executive World Innovation Foundation United Kingdom
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