D igital ecosystems aren’t just one of the biggest innovation trends to emerge in recent years. They are quickly gaining economic might. In fact, they could generate an estimated 30% of global ...

Currently, leading economic development theory holds “cluster initiatives” to be a prime example of effective innovation space. According to a recent Brookings Institute report, successful cluster ...

EVERY FEW weeks from June 1963 until July 1968, Robert Paine, a zoologist, made the journey from Seattle, where he taught at the University of Washington, across Puget Sound to the rocky shores of ...

A food web is a detailed interconnecting diagram that shows the overall food relationships between organisms in a particular environment. The simplest explanation is that food webs are "who eats whom" ...

Sitting in a sunny room with several hundred entrepreneurs and investors in Winston-Salem last month, I was reminded why local investors are so important to our state’s innovation economy. The 44 men ...

University of Salford provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Back in 1839, public health expert J F Murray published his article The Lungs of London, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh ...

Modern agriculture and land-use practices may lead to major disruptions of the world's water flows, with potentially sudden and dire consequences for regions least able to cope with them researchers ...

From a biological perspective, it is important for scientists and the general public to understand that organisms do interact with their environment; in this sense, it often incorporates the terms ...

Dale Nimmo is affiliated with the Ecological Society of Australia and receives funding from the Government of Victoria and the Hermon Slade Foundation David Lindenmayer receives funding from the ...