World News

2018年04月03日

+STI Poliy Articles Overseas (March 26-30, 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.

UK: Expectations are high for UKRI, the United Kingdom’s new £6 billion research behemoth
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/03/expectations-are-high-ukri-united-kingdom-s-new-6-billion-research-behemoth　 (Science）

UK: Brexit, science and innovation
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmsctech/705/705.pdf
 (House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland-S&T Committee report)
 
EU: Tear down the silos, vows new Commission research chief
https://sciencebusiness.net/framework-programmes/news/tear-down-silos-vows-new-commission-research-chief　 (Science|Business)
 
(Reference)
'Evolution, not revolution' will guide next EU research funding programme – Jean-Eric Paquet
https://horizon-magazine.eu/article/evolution-not-revolution-will-guide-next-eu-research-funding-programme-jean-eric-paquet_en#.WrwFgw-BntE.twitter　(Horizon Magazine)
 
EU: Towards FP9. The key role of frontier research for a more competitive and innovative Europe
https://sciencebusiness.net/events/towards-fp9-key-role-frontier-research-more-competitive-and-innovative-europe  (Science|Business)
https://www.unipi.it/index.php/ricerca/item/12102-international-conference-6-april-towards-fp9　
（Conference announcement）
 
USA: The President’s Management Agenda
https://www.performance.gov/PMA/Presidents_Management_Agenda.pdf　
 (White House report）
 
USA: AAAS: Congress’s use of science: Considerations for science organizations in promoting use of evidence in policymaking
https://mcmprodaaas.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/content_files/Congress%27s%20use%20of%20science%20031918.pdf?tBHp1BQmO6RYe0uKiRrW.LSlIq8k_Ixk
(AAAS Workshop report）
 
Japan: Nature Index 2018 Japan
https://www.natureindex.com/supplements/nature-index-2018-japan/index　 (Nature appendix）
 
China: Chinese leaders create science mega-ministry
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-03246-w　 (Nature）
 
(Reference)
China's science ministry gets power to attract more foreign scientists
https://www.natureindex.com/news-blog/chinas-science-ministry-gets-power-to-attract-more-foreign-scientists　（Nature Index blog）
 
India: Evaluation of research in India – are we doing it right?
http://ijme.in/articles/evaluation-of-research-in-india-are-we-doing-it-right/?galley=html　(India Journal of Medical Ethics）
 
US NSF: Definitions of Research and Development: An Annotated Compilation of Official Sources
https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/randdef/#  (National Science Foundation Homepage)
https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/randdef/rd-definitions.pdf　(PDF)
 
How to get public engagement right
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-03388-x　(Nature Editorial）
 
How to sail smoothly from academia to industry
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-03306-1　 (Nature)
 
“Cutting through”: overcoming the barriers to academic engagement with policy processes
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2018/03/26/cutting-through-overcoming-the-barriers-to-academic-engagement-with-policy-processes/ （LSE Blog）
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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/