又一个世纪将成为历史,又一轮国际科技竞争开始。这是一场以知识经济为核心的角逐,是受知识驱动的又一次产业革命。作为近代产业革命发源地的英国,虽然在本世纪初失去了世界科技和经济中心的地位,却在知识生产上一直稳居强国之列。面对知识经济的浪潮,英国看到了扭转自己一个世纪来相对衰落的难得机遇。自本世纪八十年代始,英国就意识到将知识“经济化”的重要性,并采取了一系列推动学术界与产业界和 Another century will be history. Another round of international technological competition will start. This is a race centered on the knowledge economy and another industry revolution driven by knowledge. Although Britain, the birthplace of the modern industrial revolution, lost its position as a world center for science and technology and economy at the turn of the century, it has consistently ranked among the most powerful countries in the production of knowledge. Faced with the tide of knowledge-based economy, the United Kingdom saw a rare opportunity to reverse its relative decline from the previous century. Since the 1980s, Britain has realized the importance of “economizing” knowledge and has taken a series of measures to promote cooperation between academia and industry and