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+STI Policy Articles Overseas (February 4-8, 2019) collected by CRDS

Center for Research and Development Strategy (CRDS)

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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 : National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM)
The NASEM Annotations to the 2019 State of the Union

https://notes.nap.edu/2019/02/06/2019sotu/?utm_source=NASEM+News+and+Publications&utm_campaign=3366b0de5f-2019_SOTU_2019_02_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_96101de015-3366b0de5f-103637781&goal=0_96101de015-3366b0de5f-103637781&mc_cid=3366b0de5f&mc_eid=cc1591cc2a

(Reference: Popular Science)
What science issues President Trump did—and did not—address in this year’s State of the Union
https://www.popsci.com/2019-sotu-science-trump 

USA Nature
UC Berkeley bans new research funding from Huawei
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00451-z  
 

 
USA : Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Worldwide Threat Assessment of The US Intelligence Community
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/os-dcoats-012919.pdf?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,63X1U,R7OZG8,NZXPU,1  


USA : The Union of Concerned Scientists
The state of science in the Trump era
https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2019/01/ucs-trump-2yrs-report.pdf?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,63X1U,R7OZG8,NZXQK,1  

USA : Science 
Democracy's plight
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6426/433?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,63X1U,R7OZG8,NZXQU,1  
  
EU : Science
Few open-access journals meet requirements of Plan S, study says
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/01/few-open-access-journals-meet-requirements-plan-s-study-says?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,63X1U,R7OZG8,NZXQM,1  
 
EU : Science|Business
Europe wrestles with a plan to build the ‘Amazon of science’
https://sciencebusiness.net/science-cloud/news/europe-wrestles-plan-build-amazon-science?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,63X1U,R7OZG8,NZXRV,1  

EU : *Research
Copyright proposals must be ditched, research groups say
https://www.researchresearch.com/news/article/?articleId=1379537&utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,63X1U,R7OZG8,NZXRW,1 
 
China : The Conversation
Why Chinese science seems so secretive – and how it may be about to change
https://theconversation.com/why-chinese-science-seems-so-secretive-and-how-it-may-be-about-to-change-110326?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,63X1U,R7OZG8,NZXRS,1  
 
(Reference: Reuters)
China's military-run space station in Argentina is a 'black box'
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-argentina-china-insight/chinas-military-run-space-station-in-argentina-is-a-black-box-idUSKCN1PP0I2?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,63X1U,R7OZG8,NZXRT,1

France : Nature
French research chief: grants are up, bureaucracy is down
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00157-2  
 
Scientific ethics : Economics
Recent events highlight an unpleasant scientific practice: ethics dumping
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2019/02/02/recent-events-highlight-an-unpleasant-scientific-practice-ethics-dumping?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,63X1U,R7OZG8,NZXR3,1 

Financial Incentives and Innovation: National Bureau of Economic Research 
Do Tax Cuts Produce More Einsteins? The Impacts of Financial Incentives vs. Exposure to Innovation on the Supply of Inventors

https://www.nber.org/papers/w25493?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,63X1U,R7OZG8,NZXR2,1 
http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp1597.pdf 

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Sources include:
Twitter Hashtag #scisip、#scipolicy、 #scipol、#InnovationDeficit
Accounts @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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