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2019年03月11日

+STI Policy Articles Overseas (March 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 Science Foundation (NSF)
U.S. R&D Increased by $22 Billion in 2016
https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/2019/nsf19308/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,65RAD,R7OZG8,O8CMY,1  https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/2019/nsf19308/nsf19308.pdf  

 
USA : American Physical Society (APS)
Political Advocacy: Why Now More Than Ever
https://www.aps.org/units/fed/newsletters/spring2019/political-adv.cfm?utm_source=Units&utm_campaign=d6d62221da-FEd+022119&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a5eb4215e8-d6d62221da-108599905&dm_i=1ZJN,65RAD,R7OZG8,O8CLN,1  
 
USA : Science
NIH letters asking about undisclosed foreign ties rattle U.S. universities
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/03/nih-letters-asking-about-undisclosed-foreign-ties-rattle-us-universities?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,65RAD,R7OZG8,O8CM2,1  
 
USA : Nature
Huge US university cancels subscription with Elsevier
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00758-x  
 
USA : Hart Research Associates
Voters’ Attitudes toward Science and Technology Research and the Role of the Federal Government
https://hartresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Federal-Science-Funding.pdf  

 
EU : Nature
High-profile subscription journals critique Plan S
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00596-x?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,65RAD,R7OZG8,O8CM5,1  
 
EU : Science|Business
The “Plan S” blog: Is the EU’s open access plan a tremor or an earthquake?
https://sciencebusiness.net/news/plan-s-blog-eus-open-access-plan-tremor-or-earthquake?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,65RAD,R7OZG8,O8CN7,1  

EU : Science|Business
Search is on for new steward to deliver Plan S open access, as Smits bows out
https://sciencebusiness.net/news/search-new-steward-deliver-plan-s-open-access-smits-bows-out?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,65RAD,R7OZG8,O8CN7,1  
 
Germany : Fraunhofer
European Investment Fund and Fraunhofer join forces to establish joint technology transfer fund in Germany
https://www.fraunhofer.de/en/press/research-news/2019/february/fraunhofer-tech-transfer-fund.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,65RAD,R7OZG8,O8CNZ,1  

Spain : Nature
Spanish science reforms aim to make life easier for parents
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00649-1?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,65RAD,R7OZG8,O8CM5,1  
 
International Program : Science
Collider plans face cloudy prospects
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6430/911?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,65RAD,R7OZG8,O8CMX,1 
 
University Ranking : Quacquarelli Symons (QS)
QS World University Rankings by Subject
https://www.topuniversities.com/subject-rankings/2019 
 
Science vs. Phylosophy : Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNS)
Why science needs philosophy
https://www.pnas.org/content/116/10/3948  

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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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