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2018年11月13日

+STI Policy Articles Overseas (November 5-9, 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 : American Action Forum
Should Congress Revive The Office Of Technology Assessment?
https://www.americanactionforum.org/insight/should-congress-revive-the-office-of-technology-assessment/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,5YEOE,R7OZG8,NBS61,1　
 
USA : Wall Street Journal
American Tech Firms Are Winning the R&D Spending Race With China
https://www.wsj.com/articles/american-tech-firms-are-winning-the-r-d-spending-race-with-china-1540873318?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,5YEOE,R7OZG8,NBS69,1 
 
USA : Science
NSF reviewing program that allows graduate fellows to study abroad
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/nsf-suspends-program-allowing-graduate-fellows-study-abroad?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,5YEOE,R7OZG8,NBS6A,1  
 
USA : The Chronicle of Higher Education
With Student Interest Soaring, Berkeley Creates New Data-Sciences Division
https://www.chronicle.com/article/With-Student-Interest-Soaring/244986?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,5YEOE,R7OZG8,NBS6D,1  
 
EU : Nature 
Wellcome and Gates join bold European open-access plan
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07300-5?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,5YEOE,R7OZG8,NBS67,1 
 
EU : *Research
Ministers double down on quantum computing
https://www.researchresearch.com/news/article/?articleId=1378035&utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,5YEOE,R7OZG8,NBS6W,1  
 
EU : Science|Business
Priorities for the European Open Science Cloud
https://sciencebusiness.net/report/priorities-european-open-science-cloud?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,5YEOE,R7OZG8,NBS7I,1  


 
UK : *Research
Brexit budget ‘will not get UK to 2.4% target’
https://www.researchresearch.com/news/article/?articleId=1378020&utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,5YEOE,R7OZG8,NBS6W,1  

AUSTRALIA : Nature
Australian academics fear political interference following vetoed projects
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07221-3?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,5YEOE,R7OZG8,NBS67,1  
 
(Related Nature article)
Australia plans ‘national-interest’ test for research grants
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07255-7?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,5YEOE,R7OZG8,NBS67,1 
 
CHINA : Australian Strategic Policy Institute
Picking flowers, making honey
https://www.aspi.org.au/report/picking-flowers-making-honey?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,5YEOE,R7OZG8,NBS7F,1  
 
BRAZIL : Nature
Brazil’s new president adds to global threat to science
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07236-w?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,5YEOE,R7OZG8,NBS67,1  

(Related Nature article) 
‘Tropical Trump’ victory in Brazil stuns scientists
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07220-4?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,5YEOE,R7OZG8,NBS67,1 

Science Cities : Nature
Nature Index 2018 Science Cities
https://www.natureindex.com/supplements/nature-index-2018-science-cities/index   
 
Cold-war Science : Johns Hopkins University Press
The covert politics of cold-war science
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07184-5?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,5YEOE,R7



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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/