The UK Government develops Gibraltar as a global research centre setting an annual topic for investigation. The think tank cultivates open-ended creative research, where users become self-governing members in a bottom-up knowledge exchange & matchmaking process with industry. Researchers apply from all over then globe to spend a year on the rock, visa free. They live in the reconfigurable container research village at the docks. A vast new library is built on the water's edge where a unique floating conference ship moors to pick up delegates.