ABSTRACT
The knowledge-creating and educational institutions, in the South and East, are overwhelmingly modelled on the North and West, which serves to distort scientific and technological and social innovation, integrally and dynamically. Such a 'North-Western' model of science and technology, conventionally depicted in universities in Europe, and imitations of such elsewhere, is a lesser one than the fullness of Europe and the United States. Among the greatest of European innovations, is that of the corporation. The prototypes were established in Northern Italy around the time of the first crusade, having their origin in high value, high risk trade in Eastern goods between Europe and Asia. The post-modern collapse of meaning has been countered by an emerging awareness of the individual's self-responsibility and capacity for creative innovation and self-transformation in his or her existential and spiritual response to life. Technological perspective that the Science Policy Unit has adopted has been enriched by Max Boisot's general approach to learning and innovation.
