World News

2018年01月30日

+STI Policy Articles Overseas (January 22-26, 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.

How the U.S. Government Shutdown Could Impact Science
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/01/usa-government-shutdown-affect-science-environment-spd/  
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01016-2　
Science in limbo as US government shuts down
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/us/politics/government-shutdown.html　


Former Government Statistical Agency Heads Call for Better Use of Data in Policymaking https://bipartisanpolicy.org/press-release/former-government-statistical-agency-heads-call-for-better-use-of-data-in-policymaking/　
https://bipartisanpolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/BPC-Evidence-Former-Government-Statistical-Agency-Heads-Call-for-Better-Use-of-Data-in-Policymaking.pdf
 
Technology will widen pay gap and hit women hardest – Davos report https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2018/jan/21/technology-widen-pay-gap-hit-womens-jobs-hardest-davos-report?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other　
 
Science after a year of President Trump
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01001-9　
Abandoning science advice: One year in, the Trump administration is sidelining science advisory committees
https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2018/01/abandoning-science-advice-full-report.pdf?wpisrc=nl_energy202&wpmm=1　
 
Scientific community rethinks how to advocate for its priorities in the Trump era
https://cen.acs.org/articles/96/i3/us-policy-outlook-for-2018.html#Policy　
 
Truth decay: An initial exploration of the diminishing role of facts and analysis in American public life  
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2314.html　
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR2300/RR2314/RAND_RR2314.pdf　
 
Science is universal and unifying
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/01/science-is-universal-and-unifying　
The simple secret to groundbreaking science: work together
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/01/the-secret-of-groundbreaking-science-global-collaboration　
 
When scientists preach to the choir  
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/when-scientists-preach-to-the-choir/　
 
Science search engine links papers to grants and patents
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-00688-0　
 
U.S. Electronics Innovation Leaps Forward Via Joint University Microelectronics Program https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2018-01-17　
 
Researchers reflect on an initiative in New Zealand to make science more inclusive https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-00482-y　
 
Science & Engineering Indicators 2018
https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/2018/nsb20181/　
https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/2018/nsb20181/report　


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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/jrc/
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