Anita Liebenau wins early-career award from the Australian Academy of Science Associate Professor Anita Liebenau from the School of Mathematics and Statistics at UNSW Sydney has received the 2025 Christopher Heyde Medal Awarded by the Australian Academy of Science the medal honours outstanding research in the mathematical sciences by researchers up to 10 years post PhD The medal is offered in several different fields on a rotating basis The 2025 award recognises exceptional contributions in Pure Associate Professor Liebenau is recognised internationally as a leading expert in extremal and probabilistic combinatorics She has worked on enumeration problems of large discrete structures such as regular graphs problems in Ramsey theory and combinatorial games played on graphs Graphs serve as mathematical models of networks with wide-ranging real-world applications A/Prof Liebenau developed a breakthrough method for enumerating regular graphs She has also proved important results on thresholds for games on graphs and has made major contributions towards resolving the Erdős–Hajnal conjecture Head of the UNSW School of Mathematics and Statistics extended his congratulations to A/Prof Liebenau on receiving her award A/Prof Liebenau joined UNSW Mathematics and Statistics as a Lecturer in 2018 after holding Research Fellowships at the University of Warwick and Monash University Her honours include three Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project grants received in 2025 a 2020 Early Career Excellence Award from UNSW Science and an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award in 2017 She was promoted to Associate Professor at UNSW in 2024 She joins a roll call of outstanding researchers in the School of Mathematics and Statistics who have received the Christopher Heyde Medal commended A/Prof Liebenau on her latest accomplishment “It is great that Anita Liebenau's research has been recognised with the award of the Christopher Heyde Medal Anita works in several different areas within combinatorics Her work on the asymptotic enumeration of families of combinatorial objects such as graphs is extremely impressive closing a huge gap in the literature and verifying a conjecture that had been open for nearly 30 years” “She has also made important contributions to problems in Ramsey theory The award includes a medal crafted by the Royal Australian Mint in Canberra A/Prof Liebenau will be conferred her award officially during the Australian Academy of Science’s annual prize-giving event in September at Science in the Shine Dome UNSW respectfully acknowledges the Bidjigal clan of the Dharawal Nation on whose unceded lands we are privileged to learn and recognise the broader Nations with whom we walk together UNSW acknowledges the enduring connection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to culture The Uluru Statement The semiconductor industry has been a renewed topic of political debate for over three years Due to recent US sanctions on the most advanced semiconductors the industry has quickly become another flashpoint in the competition between the US and China to dominate the 21st century’s strategic technologies Dr Jonathan Liebenau explains the development of the semiconductor industry in the context of China’s rise to become an increasingly capable technology power China’s sustained efforts in industrial policy to cultivate a domestic innovation system coincided with Western firms’ offshoring strategies since the 1990s transforming China into a large producer and consumer of semiconductors While Taiwan and the West retained cutting edge chip design capabilities Chinese firms such as Huawei and Hikvision have become competitive providers of mobile phones surveillance equipment and related infrastructure services Despite Washington and its partners’ conviction to constrain in China’s technological prowess industrial policy initiatives such as the CHIPS Act will face an uphill battle when it comes to bringing manufacturing capacity back to Western economies the UK must combine short term incentives with a longer-term strategic vision to remain competitive in one of the 21st century’s key strategic arenas.  China’s Semiconductors Jonathan Liebenau is Reader in Technology Management at the London School of Economics and member of the LSE IDEAS China Foresight Forum He conducts research on the digital economy most recently on Chinese high technology companies including studies of firms such as Xiaomi Alibaba and others such as semiconductor manufacturers and infrastructure builders He has produced studies for the World Bank the UK and other national governments as well as leading technology firms such as Microsoft London School of Economics and Political Science LSE is a private company limited by guarantee Campus map Contact us Cookie policy Report a page Accessibility Statement Terms of use Privacy policy Modern Slavery Statement 2025 at 4:05 pm PSTAleah Liebenau struck campy gold after finding a copy of the ’80s board game Heart-throb: The Dream Date Game at a thrift shop 15 years ago the game turned from a guilty pleasure into a real one The comedian started busting it out at parties over the years finding that her guests enjoyed the sappy dating simulator as much as she did so I played it with all my friends,” Liebenau tells WW via email “Every single friend of mine that played the game loved it I was really trying to make the Heart-throb dream come true.” If you need a refresher, Heart-throb players take turns over three rounds getting to know three boys from a deck of 59 photo cards and a few decks of personality trait cards. As The Simpsons joked nearly 30 years ago in a 1996 episode half the fun is deciding who you want to go steady with from the randomized decks and half is seeing who your friends choose Mack Magee was one of many to fall under Liebenau’s love spell They first connected at a waxing appointment—Liebenau is also an esthetician—and within months became “comedy besties.” After playing Heart-throb during their show Queer AF they realized the game needed its own regular show Liebenau and Magee have hosted the monthly improv comedy show Heart Throb: The Dream Date Show throwing in elements of other love games like The Bachelor and The Dating Game Heart Throb usually takes place at Funhouse Lounge but will move its Valentine’s Day special over to Kickstand Comedy on Friday “Pushing monogamy is a very funny thing to do in Portland especially when you have a very queer and polyamorous audience,” Magee says of Heart Throb and playing up their host character’s schmaltzy investment in the game like historic Bachelor host Chris Harrison Liebenau and Magee up the ante at Heart Throb by casting local standup and improv comedians as contestants assigning them fake personalities and biographies and seeing if the audience agrees with their contestant’s choices like Kenny Tam’s evil CEO persona during a round featuring Erica Figueroa or former WW Funniest Five winner Joe John Sanchez III’s “amazing rich douchebag” for Delaney Malone’s heart but they are very fun for the audience to hate,” Magee says As one might expect at a standup-improv comedy show Heart Throb gets messier than most board games Liebenau and Magee both fondly recall the moment Ally J Ward allowed contestant Devin Devine to spit pickle juice into her mouth it was love at first brine as Ward reportedly chose Devine as her heartthrob sing and even juggle knives to win their heart,” Liebenau sats Liebenau and Magee pull from both local improv and standup talent pools when booking crafting the show around suitors they think will be best for their bachelor or bachelorette Sparks often fly onstage—Magee recounted how an audience member nearly charmed his way into the game for Figueroa’s heart while Liebenau recalled a steamy makeout session between two comedians—and the hosts hope 2025 is the year Heart Throb makes lasting love connections “I wouldn’t be surprised if that happens in the future,” Magee says SEE IT: Heart Throb: The Dream Date Show at Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., 503-841-6734, funhouselounge.com Willamette Week’s reporting has concrete impacts that change laws, force action from civic leaders, and drive compromised politicians from public office. 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Friday night’s Bundesliga fixture was our second game of the Championship Round to face the defending champions SK Sturm under the floodlights With points badly needed in our quest to move up into the European qualifying places Isak Jansson and captain Matthias Seidl started on the flanks as Dion Beljo began up front alongside Ercan Kara Newcomer Romeo Amane was also in the matchday squad for the first time The game’s opening phase saw both teams properly going for it and some compact defending from those in Green & White kept things tight at the back whilst the first dangerous chance was created by Mama Sangaré who flicked a pass downfield with the outside of his boot before Ercan Kara edged in behind (perhaps with a hint of offside) only for Isak Jansson’s shot to slide just wide of the post (5’) The action soon went back in the other direction William Böving slipped past a couple of attempted tackles before slotting Sturm into the lead (19’) We searched for a reply but the Sturm defence thwarted our efforts too often we couldn’t register a shot on target by the time the teams went down the tunnel for the interval couldn’t bring any points back from the visit to Graz Romeo Amane came on to make his Bundesliga debut and clearly Rapid were in the mood to find a quick equaliser Seidl won a foot-race to reach the ball on the wing who controlled well but fired the shot well over (53’) but his header was gratefully caught by the Sturm keeper (60’) before fresh legs came on in the form of Jonas Auer Jakob Schöller and Romeo Amane - who made his league debut for Rapid (70’) It was Auer who created one of the best moments of the second half as his precise shot was heading for the net until Bendi Bolla also took aim for the far corner but sent his shot narrowly off-target (88’) before Louis Schaub came on for the final minutes but hopes were extinguished after 90 minutes as Sturm’s Leon Grgić headed in from a corner to make it 2-0 but unfortunately Sturm edged the close contest holding the scoreline at 2-0 to inflict our second defeat in the group as we face Djurgarden in the UEFA Conference League Quarter-Final on Thursday night Please select what you would like included for printing: Copy the text below and then paste that into your favorite email application Enter your phone number above to have directions sent via text This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply Service map data © OpenStreetMap contributors Professor Katherine Moseby and Associate Professor Anita Liebenau are among Australia’s top scientists celebrated by the Australian Academy of Science Professor Katherine Moseby’s research has led to the reintroduction of threatened species in outback Australia Dr Ira Deveson has helped improve the diagnosis of genetic disease and Associate Professor Anita Liebenau is a leading expert in graph theory Three UNSW researchers have today been recognised by the Australian Academy of Science (AAS) for their outstanding research in conservation biology Dr Ira Deveson and Associate Professor Anita Liebenau are among 22 of Australia’s top scientists to be celebrated by the country’s most prestigious scientific organisation with honorific awards UNSW Dean of Science Professor Sven Rogge and UNSW Dean of Medicine & Health Professor Cheryl Jones congratulated the academics and their success points to the strength and depth of research at UNSW,” Prof “Katherine’s work has helped save some of Australia’s most endangered species by rewilding them using innovative conservation techniques Anita’s research into complex mathematical systems has meanwhile established her as an emerging international leader in the field of graph theory leading to developments in network and algorithm design and epidemiology,” he said “Their research is addressing some of society’s biggest challenges and also changing the world for the better.” Jones said Dr Deveson’s work on genetic variations had significantly improved our understanding and diagnosis of inherited disease “Genomics has immense potential to transform health care and Dr Deveson’s research has far reaching impacts it provides a lot of hope to those diagnosed with rare and complex genetic conditions,” she said is a wildlife ecologist who specialises in the reintroduction of threatened mammals and the interactions between introduced predators and native prey She was awarded the Fenner Medal for her research which has improved conservation outcomes for Australia’s unique fauna and flora Moseby has co-founded four conservation partnerships that combine research with practical on ground management mentoring students in large scale field experiments and trialling innovative conservation methods She said the most significant impact of her research has been helping to demonstrate that fenced safe havens can be a useful tool for re-establishing threatened species back into Australia’s deserts “Three of the safe havens I co-founded now support over 15 populations of reintroduced threatened species I also co-designed and tested a feral proof fence that excludes cats foxes and rabbits which is now used in safe havens around Australia,” Prof “My research has focused on getting threatened species beyond fences and restoration habitats by managing predation and grazing pressure I’ve also helped develop and improve conservation tools for arid zone ecosystems and understand how threatened species can be used to improve the health of ecosystems.” Moseby said she felt very humbled receiving the AAS award so this award really reflects the incredible work of an amazing team of people Thanks so much to all those passionate collaborators Liebenau from UNSW Science’s School of Mathematics & Statistics was awarded the Christopher Heyde Medal The award honours outstanding research in the mathematical sciences by researchers up to 10 years post-PhD The mathematician has made a significant contribution to graph theory including co-finding a formula that solved a 30-year-old conjecture Liebenau said she was honoured to receive the award “My hope is that it gets people interested in my area of extremal and probabilistic combinatorics and that this ultimately strengthens the field here in Australia,” she said Liebenau said her work was motivated by a desire to understand the underlying principles of her mathematical field of study – large discrete structures and their behaviours “While results in pure mathematics may not always have immediate practical applications and work on extremal and probabilistic graph theory more generally often connects to applications in fields like network design algorithm design and epidemiology,” she said Dr Deveson from The Garvan Institute of Medical Research and Conjoint Lecturer at UNSW Medicine & Health was awarded the Ruth Stephens Gani Medal for his work using new genomic technologies to improve the diagnosis of genetic disease His work spans from basic computational methods development to large-scale genomic analysis of diverse cohorts in health and disease optimise and validate new techniques that may shed new light on the genome show how these can be used to address unsolved challenges in genomic medicine and facilitate their eventual translation into clinical practice Dr Deveson’s team has led the adoption of new technologies for long-read DNA sequencing (LRS) in Australia allowing researchers to resolve the most complex repetitive regions of the human genome for the first time and to reliably identify new classes of genetic variation that are difficult to identify with existing technologies By generating a more complete snapshot of a patient’s genome his team is applying LRS to improve our understanding and diagnosis of inherited disease “I’m honoured to receive this recognition for our team’s work with genomic technologies,” Dr Deveson said “We’re in an exciting era where advances in long-read sequencing are opening new possibilities for diagnosing understanding and treating genetic diseases Our focus is on developing the tools and approaches that can make these advances more accessible and useful in clinical practice.” The Academy presents its annual medals to recognise scientific excellence by researchers from the early stages of their careers to those who have made lifelong achievements Selkirk Location 1-204-482-3271 Gimli Location 1-204-482-3271 Selkirk Location | Gimli Location It is with great sadness that we announce the peaceful passing of Wally Liebenau on July 26 He especially will be missed by his 4 legged friend Diesel He immigrated to Winnipeg from Germany in 1952 In 1960 he married the love of his life for 55 years Marian Sumka and together they had 3 children Harold (Darlene) Christine (Bob) Loster and Jeff (Cheryl); grandchildren Tyler (Christine) Courtney and one great granddaughter Brooklyn Sophie Wally is survived by family in Germany and countless brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law Wally was predeceased by 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It is a priority for CBC to create products that are accessible to all in Canada including people with visual Closed Captioning and Described Video is available for many CBC shows offered on CBC Gem Several staff members in the School of Mathematics and Statistics were successful in the most recent round of Australian Research Council funding They collectively secured over $1.5 million in funding for their projects: A flagship scheme for fundamental research and the largest scheme under the ARC National Competitive Grants Program Discovery Projects provide funding of between $30,000 and $500,000 each year for up to five consecutive years In total, 64 UNSW projects have been provided more than $41million in this round of competitive grants from the ARC Billions of pounds - largely from the public purse - go into researching and developing vaccines we’re very much in the dark about who pays what In the five years leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic about £2 billion was spent researching and developing vaccines for emerging infectious diseases In the year since, at least £5 billion has been committed, about half of which has come from the US The associated cost for developing a vaccine for epidemic infectious diseases has been estimated at between £2 and £2.7 billion but the reality is we do not know the exact amount “We still know too little about who pays for the research and development of our vaccines who they pay it to and what they receive in return,” says Dr Jonathan Liebenau Associate Professor (Reader) of Technology Management in the Department of Management but it is notoriously difficult to understand opaque if not deliberately secretive.” It is this lack of transparency that has led Dr Liebenau to assemble a team of predominantly LSE experts to shed light on where the money to fund our vaccines goes how it’s spent and what those receiving the funds get in return They are building on decades of extensive research on the management and finance of pharmaceutical manufacturers the effects of regulation and the science of drug development They will use knowledge maps that trace citations as well as medical informatics and artificial intelligence who receives the funds and how they are spent Research from one of Dr Liebenau’s research assistants traced the cost of the research that led to Oxford University’s contribution to the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to more than £228 million with the largest amount coming from overseas governments including the EU at 46.3% and the UK government at 30.5% this fails to include the cost of clinical trials The public interest advocacy think tank, KEI, has assembled a collection of relevant contracts that indicate that tens of billions of dollars of public money were spent in 2020 on supporting pharmaceutical companies in their development and commercialisation of COVID-19 vaccines “To understand where the money to fund our vaccines goes you need scientific and technical knowledge an ability to interpret public policy and an understanding of the business motives and the contracts that hold the system together,” Dr Liebenau says the funds can be traced back to universities that receive grants or government institutions such as the Medical Research Council’s laboratories in Mill Hill or the National Institutes of Health (NIH) laboratories in the US Things become more opaque when funds are given to companies It can be extremely difficult, or even impossible, to follow the flow of funds for clinical trials, the cost of which often runs over £15 million each some funds come from the Medical Research Council the NHS and often a mix of universities and companies such as advocacy groups and medical charities are also often involved,” Dr Liebenau says “Too little is known about how private philanthropies especially the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust We also need analytics applied to outcomes such as the share-price effects for companies engaged in health emergency preparedness and response and how such effects influence company strategies and the conditions for inter-corporate and university collaborations.” “The fact that we know so little about how our vaccines are funded should worry us all,” he argues “It is not just a matter of getting better returns on investments or even about the concessions and obligations of stakeholders,” Dr Liebenau says “To prepare better for future health emergencies we need to be able to understand how to incentivise vaccine producers for urgently-needed innovations and not rely on unaccountable gambles,” he says The commercialisation failure rate for vaccines has been estimated to be 94% It’s in all our interests to ensure that goes down can also discover how resources can be allocated more efficiently - something that will benefit us all a research group in the Department of Management that looks at the internet and communications economics Feature image: Spencer Davis on Unsplash Quoc Thong Le Gia and Anita Liebenau have been promoted to Associate Professor People stopped using public transport for fear of catching COVID Jonathan Liebenau (LSE) and Oscar Huerta Melchor (OECD) warn that the switch to cars will become permanent unless cities invest in mass transit systems If public confidence is not restored and the loss of revenue is not compensated through other finance it could lead to a death spiral for public transport This shift in preferences could be seen when lockdowns were eased after the first wave of infections and footfall was much slower to recover in city centres than in suburbs or non-urban areas A potential decline of urban cores could severely compromise the push towards more compact connected and low-carbon development alongside important targets for biodiversity and the preservation of open land and forests This is not to suggest that there will necessarily be any slowdown in urbanisation rates globally but rather that the type of urbanisation may change in ways that jeopardise the environment often sharing rooms with other adults or with children attending school remotely 28% had gone to environmentally sensitive sectors (energy transport and waste – the most relevant to urban emissions – as well as industry and agriculture) In 15 of the G20 economies and half the other countries those investments would have a net negative environmental impact helping entrench fossil fuel dependency and “business as usual” practices largely driven by a recovery in road transport activity The shutdowns and reduced economic activity resulted in a 6% drop in global greenhouse gas emissions in 2020,36 but as activities have normalised, many places have seen a return to pre-pandemic emissions levels Recent work by the International Energy Agency (IEA) shows that emissions have rebounded most quickly in the countries that invested the least in green economic stimulus measures This increase was largely driven by a recovery in road transport activity countries in Europe that have invested the most in the green recovery have been able to keep overall emissions low It is clear that without deliberate and immediate action the world could come out of the pandemic with less accessible and less inclusive cities urban restructuring and recovery efforts that compromise environmental sustainability This post represents the views of the authors and not those of the COVID-19 blog, nor LSE. It is an extract from Rode, P., Heeckt, C., Huerta Melchor, O., Flynn, R., and Liebenau, J. 2021 Better Access to Urban Opportunities: Accessibility Policy for Cities in the 2020s Philipp Rode is Executive Director of LSE Cities and Associate Professorial Research Fellow at LSE Catarina Heeckt is a Policy Fellow at LSE Cities researching sustainable mobility low-carbon urban development and urban governance Rebecca Flynn is a postgraduate research fellow at LSE Cities She previously worked as a policy officer in local government Dr Jonathan Liebenau is an Associate Professor (Reader) in Technology Management at the LSE Oscar Huerta Melchor is an OECD policy advisor on urban development and governance A significant shift in China’s technology and industrial policy emerged around forty years ago with an interpretation of the ‘four modernisations’ of Deng Xiaoping that set the stage for a boom in private and semi-private technology companies special economic zones and capitalist business practices over the following ten years Communist Party technology policies were clearly married to industrial policy and concrete strategies emerged to accelerate technology transfer divert resources to build science and technology capabilities and create both domestic and export markets for Chinese high technology goods Investments from Germany and the United States but especially those that brought development models with them from Japan and South Korea were especially influential in shaping both the character and the focal areas of technology development While companies such as Siemens and General Motors were important during this period investments by firms such as Sony (operating as Chengdu Sobey Digital Technology) Panasonic (parts of its Sanyo business were later acquired by Haier) SK and Hyundai provided models not only of efficient product assembly but also of technology transfer and innovation American management theory began to prevail The new wave of private high technology and digital services companies date from the late 1980s when Huawei was established all of which soon came to emulate mainly American firms such as Cisco a series of major technology companies were established or grew out of state-owned enterprises such as the army-linked China Electronics Technology Group which itself spun off one of China’s two leading surveillance equipment and services firms: HIKVision Haier and China’s three dominant telecommunications services companies China Telecom and China Unicom all originated as entirely state-owned enterprises A further group of private companies also followed such as Dahua Technologies—the other of the two leading surveillance equipment and services firms—and the leading drone manufacturer: DJI (Shenzhen Great Frontier Innovations Science and Technologies Company) With relatively easy access to capital from state banks these firms grew quickly and most invested in R&D on a scale comparable to their American counterparts While their governance ranged widely from wholly private to wholly state-owned all have conducted business largely in step with Chinese industrial European and Japanese industrial development coincided with this initial wave of Chinese business development during that 20-year period: the push to exploit outsourcing and offshoring opportunities the associated improvements in supply chain logistics and an onset of stasis or atrophy associated with the period from the technology downturn from the end of the dot-com boom through the telecom bust that followed and beyond the financial services crisis of 2008 While US digital services companies continued to grow formerly world-leading US manufacturers such as Cisco and Lucent (both in telecommunications equipment) 3Com (which was acquired by another ailing company Similar fates met the leading Canadian high technology firms Nortel Networks and BlackBerry Alcatel in France and Britain’s International Computers Ltd [ICL] Many Japanese and South Korean technology leaders also lost their reputations as innovators during this period There is no simple explanation for this loss of leadership in digital technologies manufacturing outside of China the coincident growth of the Chinese firms was fuelled by the dramatic rise of China’s GDP and policies that supported it from many directions including domestic civil and security services procurement direct funding through the Chinese Academy of Sciences and industrial and trade policies that favoured digital technologies Most of these were associated with infrastructure development including advanced manufacturing (so-called industry 4.0) the roll-out of ‘smart city’ schemes and associated surveillance and security applications Some of these are associated with leading innovation practices such as those at Xiaomi and Huawei in knowledge management Alibaba and JD.com in supply chain management and a variety of company incentive schemes aimed at innovators While nefarious activities associated with intellectual property theft industrial espionage and anticompetitive practices have not been uncommon they contributed in value-added relatively little to the growth outcomes of factors described above What this means for international competition China’s challenge to technology dominance is focused on a short list of key areas mainly linked to infrastructure and include mobile telephony (network as well as mass market equipment) mass transport and construction technologies The last two were primarily spurred by domestic requirements and have only recently entered international competition Their dominance in surveillance technologies is motivated by both the availability of masses of data that is legally restricted or difficult to use in other countries and by the huge market domestically and abroad primarily from security services control and automation technologies fuel the bid for dominance in drones electric and autonomous vehicles and are enabling capabilities associated with 5G services and the ‘internet of things’ many of them at variance or even anathema for Western nations play a part these factors should be considered as interrelated and associated with skills in labour markets business development and national R&D activities as well as technology policy One facilitating factor is the use of technical standards an area of engineering that had been dominated by Western and Japanese firms through multilateral organisations such as the international standards setting bodies The recent American-led pressure to diminish the role of multilateral bodies provided Chinese firms opportunities to extend their influence within such institutions The UK and the rest of Europe have long been influential in standards bodies as well as institutions of law and regulation that will in the coming years form increasingly critical foundations to digital technologies European companies have also led in robotics and advanced manufacturing and still hold the lead in most areas of machine learning and the other most advanced areas of software technology as measured by research outputs and new product introductions are in contention for leadership but by most criteria still lag It is crucial for policy makers as well as industry leaders to be well aware of these factors as they consider the significance of China’s competition the emergence of Huawei as the leader in 5G overlook the fact that the firm took the technological lead in this area over ten years ago building on the base of over 30 years of rapid growth Even if the emergence of such effective competition service qualities or technological leadership Western nations cannot expect short-term policies that constrain trade re-design standards or invoke specious security restrictions to re-establish Western technology dominance no matter how well justified legal complaints might be The first step toward re-entering competition in technology with China is to understand better how China came to this position of strength Western nations should look beyond complaints of unfair practices and recognise that Chinese companies have enjoyed recent successes based on over twenty years of strategic practices The West should learn better from Chinese companies’ practices of long-term finance and planning taking lessons from (and tolerance for) failed business experiments and setbacks and sophisticated labour market and management developments These are all found in the best of Western business practices and they have not been allowed to dominate Western economies Western nations should also return to an attitude toward government in its judicious use of regulations and market shaping activities that can achieve what the Chinese Communist Party achieves through autocracy These include judicious use of large-scale projects such as urban development and information infrastructure that foster mechanisms likely to have spillover effects that strengthen technology businesses Countries should find ways that advance technological applications that are the reverse of the experiments in repression such as those applied in Xinjiang: surveillance and artificial intelligence for traffic control rather than social control monitoring individuals to effect vaccine distribution rather than withholding rights It seems unlikely that short-term tax incentives and ‘business friendly environment’ policies will do much to address these larger Measures such as freeports do little more than redistribute resources or provide very localised boosts while the rest of industrial policy sets out on a race to the bottom The West still outperforms China in most areas of advanced technology it should be recognised that it has much to learn about how it lost the lead in others It is most important that democratic nations strengthen and build upon those institutions that underlie technological success These include existing institutions of law and trade They also require us to reconsider how countries should plan for their national futures and find consensus to prioritise innovation bodies such as the Crick and Turing Institutes in London as one kind of model and aspects of France’s transportation policy as another German technology law is in parts exemplary A short-term enthusiasm for an outer-space project a flurry of subsidies for fashion and industrial design and great expectations of spillover from prowess in vaccine development are all well and good but there is little room for optimism when one watches political capital frittered away in squabbles over fisheries while the foundations of our economies are undermined Jonathan Liebenau is an associate professor in technology management at LSE's department of management He specialises in fundamental concepts of information and the problems and prospects of ICT in economic development He has provided consultancy services to leading companies and strategic government agencies the Department of Trade and Industry and the Home Office There are many aspects to admire about China its hard working people and growing technological influence There are opportunities to cooperate and compete with China Yet what is evident is that very few UK senior government people or politicians understand China The Crick and Turing institutes will be of increasing influence going forwards a third pillar for growth and trade with such a significant economy is a new China Institute This third pillar could be a similar model to Turing drawing on many universities for its fellows with a relatively small HQ head count Such a new institute could be an effective accelerator across STEM-based innovative sectors to compete and cooperate This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed the three Rs can help us remember what's important to build a solid approach: Results Sylvia Rohde-Liebenau encourages us to be the best version of ourselves today and to simply accept and be aware of what is happening in our busy lives for his strong and clear leadership at this time; 'excellent crisis management' She also believes there is a leader in all of us in all the various ways in which we need to show leadership If you feel you have a story worth talking about lisa_burke@rtltoday.lu or contenttoday@rtl.lu Вы используете блокировщик рекламы в вашем браузере В этом случае Вы не сможете пользоваться всеми функциональными возможностями нашего сайта и его отдельными страницами который мы используем для отображения видеоконтента активированный блокировщик рекламы может вызывать проблемы с загрузкой сайта и корректным его отображением чтобы получить возможность использовать наш сайт в полной мере внесите Dynamo.kiev.ua в «белый список» вашего блокировщика что любые попытки обсуждения этого и других решений редакции сайта немедленно влекут за собой ограничение по п.2.9 правил сайта Stadion Graz Liebenau will host the second leg of the 3rd qualifying round of the Champions League between the local Sturm and Dynamo Kyiv Those who wish can purchase a ticket to the guest sector A special box office for Ukrainian fans will be open on the day of the game from 10:00 am in the Sturma fan shop (address: Stadionplatz 1 Стать участником фан-зоны Нажимая на кнопку, вы соглашаетесь с условиями членства в фан-зоне конвертировать карму в шурики Устанавливайте наше приложение и всегда оставайтесь в курсе футбольных новостей After thousands of votes following the launch of this year’s fittest fresher competition Avram Liebenau has been crowned your winner Fighting off stiff competition from Bloomsbury’s finest Avram romped home with almost 30 per cent of the vote ahead of second placed William Kirk who took 8.14 per cent The 19 year old History and Russian student told The Tab: “I’d just like to thank my fans who nominated me and I’d like to thank my parents for giving me the genes to win this prestigious award.” Ploughing through his dinner like he did the competition Looking to use his newfound exposure for good Avram – originally from Finsbury Park – added: “I hope this brings the world one step closer to eradicating poverty and intend to use my looks to raise money for some of the many good causes out there “I’d finally like to thank all the good people in Schafer who voted and campaigned on my behalf All I can say is it’s a dream come true.” Avram is currently single and can often frequents the Highbury fields pitch, you can find him on Instagram here UCL SU also took down the advertisement for a Student Socialist Alternative Society event over similar concerns The protest managed to dupe campus security which was on high alert after a tip-off The university’s app now features a ‘missed teaching’ section Is Taylor Swift the modern day Shakespeare Royal Holloway and Queen Mary also ranked among the top 10 recipients of donations from fossil fuel companies The research estimates that over 5,000 students fell victim to phone robberies last year and London Met dropped banners across campuses as part of their campaign The police launched a new initiative outside the XOYO nightclub in Shoreditch Come to our open meeting at 7pm on Monday 2nd October at the Ice Wharf in Camden Imagine being mistaken for an Imperial student Strikes were planned for the week starting September 25th This comes as marking and assessment boycotts just ended The individual rented the university’s official gown and forged tickets to infiltrate the event The annual cost of private halls is forecast to reach almost £20,000 in the coming academic year Students across the country are now one step closer to winning compensation The uni offered £125 for 10,000 word dissertations £45 for first markers of 3,000 word essays and £20 for second marking UCL will face trial if it cannot settle with students involved in the case in eight months A chance to see both a spectacular performance and Colin Bridgerton in the flesh Remember when she kept posting open love notes on Instagram to him He’s back handing out handshakes on another series of The Great British Bake Off There have been 59 ghost sightings at one UK uni Liam Payne has just had his driver’s license suspended This doesn’t only happen to celebrities like Holly Willoughby I’m switching back to a Nokia brick after this Of course she’s well connected with most of the cast The hygiene rating of my fave kebab shop has nothing to do with me The Made in Chelsea mayhem has gone on long enough ‘Bradley said he was behaving like a caged animal’ She thinks they’re on the show ‘for fun’ and are not ‘focusing on their marriages’ It was revealed today Luke has been removed from the show following a physical fight