World News

2018年02月06日

+STI Policy Articles Overseas (January 29-February 2, 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.


Special pleading is bad for science
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/special-pleading-bad-science
(Times Higher Education）
 
House Science Committee members say President Trump’s lack of science advisers leaves us vulnerable to disaster
https://www.popsci.com/house-science-committee-wants-white-house-advisers　(Popular Science）
 
A tale of two cultures
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6374/371.full　(Science）
 
Falling Short on Science
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/opinion/falling-short-on-science.html　(New York Times）
 
NSF Director: Federal Funds Are Key to Scientific Discovery
https://www.usnews.com/news/stem-solutions/articles/2018-01-24/national-science-foundation-director-france-cordova-says-federal-funding-is-instrumental-to-scientific-discovery  (US News & World）
 
If Trump Gets His Way, America Won’t Be No. 1 in Science Much Longer
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-25/in-science-u-s-won-t-be-first-for-long-if-trump-gets-his-way  （Bloomberg News）
（Reference）
Will America yield its position as the world’s leader in science and technology?　(Boston Globe紙)　 https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2018/01/29/will-america-yield-its-position-world-leader-science-and-technology/Nxpl2xfqfliEHVapCSiERI/story.html　
 
Asia Reclaims Position as Epicenter of Global Innovation
https://clarivate.com/blog/news/new-report-asia-reclaims-position-epicenter-global-innovation/　　(Clarivate Analytics）
 
German scientists hope for windfall from incoming government
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01026-0　

10 predictions for 2018
https://www.nesta.org.uk/2018-predictions　 (NESTA)
 
The future for academic publishers lies in navigating research, not distributing it
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2018/01/29/the-future-for-academic-publishers-lies-in-navigating-research-not-distributing-it/　


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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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