It is the basic premise of this study that advanced societies are becoming too heavily impacted in archaic idea logistics and consequently tend toward stagnation. A profound transformation is developing, however, in the emergence of philosophically oriented idea logistics and radically new concepts of institutional organization which could enable nations to sustain continuously high creative momentum and to have vastly greater capacity to deal wisely with the dynamics of change. This project is a study of the emerging development of such philosophically exploratory methodologies and institutions in Europe and the United States. (Author)