World News

2018年01月16日

+STI Policy Articles Overseas (January 9-12, 2018) collected by CRDS

This page is for weekly articles collected by the Center for R&D Strategies (CRDS) whose mission is to monitor, examine, and analyze the trends of 'STI and Society' and the policies in Japan and overseas. Based on the analyses, CRDS comes up with problems to be solved and proposes the solution and strategies to the government. The following articles mainly from the sources described below are expected to be of help to those involved in STI policymaking activities.


Brexit science and innovation Summit call for evidence launched (UK Parliament HP)
http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/science-and-technology-committee/news-parliament-2017/brexit-science-innovation-summit-launch-17-19/　

Rising star appointed UK science minister (Nature)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-00396-9

The government has promised more R&D. Where will the money come from? (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2018/jan/04/the-government-has-promised-more-rd-where-will-the-money-come-from

France’s Macron calls for Europe-wide big data strategy (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e451e1d4-f5de-11e7-88f7-5465a6ce1a00

Germany vs Elsevier: universities win temporary journal access after refusing to pay fees (Nature)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-00093-7

New Initiatives Offer Jobs, Funding to Women Only (The Scientist)
https://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/51256/title/New-Initiatives-Offer-Jobs--Funding-to-Women-Only/

Diplomacy for Scientists (Scientific American)
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/diplomacy-for-scientists/

Americans’ attitudes about science in 2017: High confidence, low visibility (Research America)
http://www.researchamerica.org/news-events/news/americans%E2%80%99-attitudes-about-science-2017-high-confidence-low-visibility

Trump’s Disdain for Science (NY Times)
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/04/opinion/trump-disdain-science.html　

Ukraine’s Lofty Ambitions, Fallen to Earth (NY Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/01/science/ukraine-space-science.html


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Source:

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• Twitter hashtag   #scisip、#scipolicy、 #scipol、#InnovationDeficit
• Accounts including @MIOIR、@sppgatech、@CSPO_ASU、@SPRU、@uclsteapp

• Institute for Research on Innovation & Science　 http://iris.isr.umich.edu/index.php/news/ 　
• Research Infrastructure for Research and Innovation Policy Studies http://risis.eu/events/
• Center for Science of Science and Innovation Policy http://cssip.org/
• Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI http://www.isi.fraunhofer.de/isi-en/index.php
• Institute For Research and Innovation in Society http://ifris.org/en/actualites/
• NESTA http://www.nesta.org.uk/   
• Joint Research Centre （European Commission）  https://ec.europa.eu/