Shaken and Stirred
Supper Club
Dr Terence Kealey
Vice Chancellor University of Buckingham
On
Sex, Science and Profits
Why publicly funding science and research
is limiting our capacity to innovate
Wednesday 13 October 2010
6.30pm for 7pm start
Pazzo Restaurant
583 Crown Street
Surry Hills
$65 including two courses, wine and convention rattling
RSVP essential: shakenandstirred@thoughtbroker.com.au
Dr Terence Kealey is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham in the UK and a clinical biochemist specialising in human skin cell biology. In his first book The Economic Laws of Scientific Research he argued that, contrary to convention, governments need not fund science. His second book, Sex, Science and Profits presents an evolutionary and economic history of humanity, showing how the roots of barter, trade and contract are embedded in human nature and how markets work on the evolutionary principles of natural selection. Dr Kealey writes regularly for the Spectator and New Scientist.
Discussant: Higher education expert, Andrew Norton, from the Centre for Independent Studies will provide commentary on the Australian experience of bureaucratised research funding which was recently described as suffering from “bias, favouritism and a lack of transparency and process” by UNSW Deputy Vice Chancellor Les Field.
For a short and long summary of the ideas in Tezza’s previous book, go here
http://www.the-rathouse.com/2010/Kealey-EconomicsofScience.html
for discussion,
http://clubtroppo.com.au/2010/10/03/terence-kealey-on-the-economics-of-scientific-research/