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2018年08月11日

+STI Policy Articles Overseas (August 6-10, 2018) collected by CRDS

Center for Research and Development Strategy (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.

USA: Scientific American 
A Conversation with the Only Scientist in Congress
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-conversation-with-the-only-scientist-in-congress/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,5SN9L,R7OZG8,MMDIR,1  

USA: FiveThirtyEight
Can Science Save Politics? Or Will Politics Ruin Science?
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/can-science-save-politics/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,5SN9L,R7OZG8,MMDIT,1  

(Reference: Science)
Science candidates are on the ballot next week in three states
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/08/science-candidates-are-ballot-next-week-three-states?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,5SN9L,R7OZG8,MMDIU,1  

USA: Bipartisan Policy Center
Public Forum on the Federal Government’s Data Strategy
https://bipartisanpolicy.org/events/public-forum-on-the-federal-governments-data-strategy/ 
 
(Reference: Federal Data Strategy）
https://strategy.data.gov/　
 
EU: *Research
Universities fight for their place in Horizon Europe
https://www.researchresearch.com/news/article/?articleId=1376551&utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,5SN9L,R7OZG8,MMDJZ,1  
 
Germany: Nature
Gigantic review of German science recommends more data and diversity
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05818-2?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,5SN9L,R7OZG8,MMDIY,1 
 
UK: Physics Today
The legacies of the Royal Institution
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.3996?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,5SN9L,R7OZG8,MMDIV,1  

 
Quantum: Wired
Quantum computing will create jobs. But which ones?
https://www.wired.com/story/national-quantum-initiative-quantum-computing-jobs/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,5SN9L,R7OZG8,MMDNJ,1  
 
(Reference: Council on Foreign Relations Blog)
What Policymakers Need to Know About Quantum Computing
https://www.cfr.org/blog/what-policymakers-need-know-about-quantum-computing?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,5SN9L,R7OZG8,MMDJP,1 　
 
After Ph.D.: Nature
Why it is not a ‘failure’ to leave academia
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05838-y?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,5SN9L,R7OZG8,MMDIY,1 
 
Federal funding and the rate and direction of inventive activity: Research Policy
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733318301549?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,5SN9L,R7OZG8,MMDJ4,1  
 


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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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