World News

2018年02月13日

+STI Policy Articles Overseas (February 5-9, 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.

U.S. Competitiveness at Risk Without More R&D Investment
https://www.bna.com/us-competitiveness-risk-b73014474884/　(Bloomberg BNA）
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National Science Board Statement on Global Research and Development (R&D) Investments NSB-2018-9
https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=244465&WT.mc_id=USNSF_62&WT.mc_ev=click　(National Science Board / NSF)
 
Trump shows his apathy for science
http://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.3842  (Physics Today）
 
Is There Room for Science and Evidence in Trump’s Budget?
http://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/opinion-room-science-evidence-trumps-budget　 (Roll Call）
 
President Trump’s First State of the Union - Reaction 
* Last Night Proved We Need More Scientists In Public Office
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/last-night-proved-we-need-more-scientists-in-public-office/　 (Scientific American）
* 'Science Guy' Attends State Of The Union Address, And Some Scientists Aren't Happy
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/31/582047230/science-guy-attends-state-of-the-union-address-and-some-scientists-aren-t-happy　(National Public Radio)
 
Our science, our society
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6375/499.full　 (Science)

European Commission Requesting Comment on Post-2020 S&T Funding Priorities
https://ec.europa.eu/info/consultations/public-consultation-eu-funds-area-investment-research-innovation-smes-and-single-market_en#questionnaire

Why science blogging still matters
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01414-6　 (Nature）
 
More data or better data? Using statistical decision theory to guide data collection
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2018/02/02/more-data-or-better-data-using-statistical-decision-theory-to-guide-data-collection/　

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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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