Becoming a Blue Country Authors Antoni Castellà Secretaria d'Universitats i Recerca Abstract Catalonia has a research system with brilliant results whose applicati ons strongly contribute to the Catalan economy. While Catalonia represents 0.1% of the world’s population, it is responsible for 1% of the world’s scientific output. Confronted with the knowledge revolution, the challenge that must be met by the country is to complete the massive transfer of this knowledge in the next ten years. Catalonia should become a Blue Country; that is, one with a profoundly democratic and cultured society with a high level of trust between its citizens, civil society and institutions. It should have powerful higher education and research systems that can provide Catalonia an economy with high added value. Scientists, by advancing knowledge and transforming it into value, will be the heroes of our time. They are the members of society who can lead us in becoming a Blue Country.Keywords: science policy · knowledge revolution · Catalan science Author Biography Antoni Castellà, Secretaria d'Universitats i Recerca Downloads PDF Issue Vol. 10 No. 1 (2014) Section Article License This work is subject, unless the contrary is indicated in the text, the photographs or in other illustrations, to an Attribution —Non-Commercial— No Derivative Works 3.0 Creative Commons License, the full text of which can be consulted at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/. You are free to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work provided that the author is credited and reuse of the material is restricted to non-commercial purposes only and that no derivative works are created from the original material.
