THE BRICS PROJECT

The BRICS project maintains its own website.

The project convened its first workshop in Aalborg, 12 - 15 February 2006.
 

The basic idea behind GLOBELICS is to establish a global network of scholars who apply the concept ‘system of innovation and competence building’ as their analytical framework. The focus of the network is on processes of competence building and innovation and comparative studies across continents and cultures will be stimulated and initiated by Globelics.

The BRICS-project may be seen as one specific effort to realize these basic principles of GLOBELICS. A comparison between the different trajectories and strategies of the Brics-countries will provide both analytical and conceptual challenges associated with the use of the systems of innovation framework in environments characterized by turbulence and transition. Studying major emerging economies with different positions in the world system through the NSI-perspective will offer new insights in how to promote a more balanced world in terms of the distribution of well being and power.

The BRICS-project also creates a space for ‘horizontal learning’ where scholars and policy makers in the five countries can learn directly from each other without having to go through international institutions dominated by the US or Europe. Many of the problems are similar and by drawing upon each others experience the BRICS-countries can learn to find methods to find workable solutions.


Read more about the BRICS project here: BRICS project position paper