World fairs as Latvia’s Development Tool on the International Arena

Task of the science is to serve
people.

– Tolstoy –

Science is the captain, and
practice the soldiers.

– Leonardo da Vinci –

Frontiers of science are like the
horizon: the more we approach
it, the more it moves away.

– Boiste –

The fantasy is more important
than knowing.

– Albert Einstein –

Science – it means organized
knowledge.

– Spencer –

Freedom for the science the
same as the air for a living soul.

– Poincaré –

Research area of all sciences is
endless.

– Pascal –

System of science must be
looked at as the system of
nature: all in it is endless and
necessary.

– Cuvier –

Scientific plan without working
hypothesis is a skeleton without
living body.

– Hirschfeld-

The main research subject of
mankind is the human.

– Goethe –

All is important in science.

– Heine –

Books must be results of
sciences, but sciences not results
of books.

– Bacon –

Scientist is not the one, who
gives the right answers, but the
one, who asks the right
questions.

– Claude Lévi-Strauss –

The more we will seek for the
truth outside us, the more we
will move away of it. The more
we will be able to understand
who we are, the more the truth
will assert us in ourselves.

– Antonio Meneghetti –

Before being dictated the nature
needs to be obeyed.

– Bacon –

A true scientist is not one who
has more acquired, but one who
has more understood.

– Leibniz –

Science – to know how the
being acts. To know the action
of the being.

– Antonio Meneghetti –

Science is benefactor of
mankind.

– Berthelot –

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World fairs as Latvia’s Development Tool on the International Arena

April 2021 | Briefings, External Relations, News

World Expo is the biggest world fair, providing opportunities for every country to show what it can bring into this world. Moreover, despite the chance to demonstrate the country’s technological achievements this event helps to find partners on both economic and political grounds.

A country may benefit from participation by attracting foreign investments, expanding local business abroad or attracting high potential entrepreneurs to the country. However, participation in World Expo is state-funded and is rather expensive, especially for such a small country like Latvia. For Expo 2020 Latvian government spent 4,2 million EUR; and the question remains whether the investments made will justify the goals and objectives that Latvia intends to achieve and how big will be the return of government spending to the national economy?

Full publication can be found here.

*This article has been made in cooperation with China-CEE institute and is the intellectual property of China-CEE institute