Past Projects - Enterprise
Adelphi Charter
Can current intellectual property legislation cope with the shifting technological and social contexts of the 21st century? This project brought together working groups of eminent practitioners to create an intellectual property charter that responds effectively and practically to these demands.
The Adelphi Charter was launched on 13 October 2005. It can be downloaded from the project website.
Contact: archive@rsa.org.uk
Website: www.adelphicharter.org
Publications: Promoting Innovation and Awarding Creativity: A balanced intellectual property framework for the digital age (PDF, 1MB)
Forum for Technology, Citizens and the Market
This project aimed to help science-based companies anticipate and engage with public concerns around technology - whether these concerns were focussed on research, products or company operations.
Find out more about the Forum for Technology, Citizens and the Market
Contact: archive@rsa.org.uk
Professional Values for the 21st Century
This project posed the question: 'What distinguishes a profession from any other job?', and invited a wide range of professionals, Fellows and non-Fellows, 'old' and 'new' professions, to identify the issues and questions that most concerned them for the future.
Find out more about Professional Values for the 21st century
Contact: archive@rsa.org.uk
Redefining Work
The original report Redefining Work, written by Valerie Bayliss, was published by the RSA in 1998. It examined the pace and unpredictability of changes in patterns of work and people's working lives.
A second report - Redefining Work 2 looked at the ways our society might function in the next century and the assumptions we might make about the nature and role of work within it.
Contact: archive@rsa.org.uk
Publications: Download Redefining Work 2 (PDF, 100KB)
The Economy of the Imagination
This project looked at how and if commerce and high culture can live together and produce original and creative new work. A one-day conference, Music and Technology: Policy Frameworks for the Future took place in January 2004, exploring the the UK music and entertainment industries' need for an updated policy environment to encourage creative new music, and new ways of selling and distributing music.
Contact: archive@rsa.org.uk
Publications: Download the report - Visions for the Future (PDF, 472KB)
