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2019年03月19日

+STI Policy Articles Overseas (March 11-15, 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 : New York Times
Cut the Science Budget? Not So Fast

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/11/science/science-research-budget-astronomy.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,668MU,R7OZG8,OAIUK,1  
 
(Reference: Science)
Trump once again requests deep cuts in U.S. science spending
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/03/trump-once-again-requests-deep-cuts-us-science-spending 
 
USA : VOX
Republicans don’t like the National Science Foundation, and there’s a perfectly good reason for it 

https://www.vox.com/mischiefs-of-faction/2019/3/6/18252793/why-republicans-hate-nsf?dm_i=1ZJN,668MU,R7OZG8,OAIUL,1  
 

 
USA : Wall Street Journal
Keeping Talent America Trains
https://www.wsj.com/articles/keeping-talent-america-trains-11551741561?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,668MU,R7OZG8,OAIUR,1  
 
USA : The Atlantic
The Real Cost of Knowledge
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/uc-elsevier-publisher/583909/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,668MU,R7OZG8,OAIUX,1  
 
(Reference: Guardian)
The Guardian view on academic publishing: disastrous capitalism
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/04/the-guardian-view-on-academic-publishing-disastrous-capitalism?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,668MU,R7OZG8,OAIUP,1 

USA : New York TImes
Top Universities Join to Push ‘Public Interest Technology’
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/11/technology/universities-public-interest-technology.html  
 
EU : Science|Business
Europe weakened by ‘a serious research divide’, says Helmholtz head
https://sciencebusiness.net/news/europe-weakened-serious-research-divide-says-helmholtz-head?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,668MU,R7OZG8,OAIVO,1  
 
EU : Science|Business
101 ideas for European research from the grass roots
https://sciencebusiness.net/framework-programmes/news/101-ideas-european-research-grass-roots?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,668MU,R7OZG8,OAIVO,1 https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/research_and_innovation/rise/rise_101_ideas_brochure_032019.pdf 

EU : Science|Business
The role of universities in regional innovation ecosystems
https://sciencebusiness.net/network-news/eua-role-universities-regional-innovation-ecosystems  

https://eua.eu/downloads/publications/eua%20innovation%20ecosystem%20report_final_digital.pdf

China : South China Morning Post
China’s funding for science and research to reach 2.5 per cent of GDP in 2019
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/2189427/chinas-funding-science-and-research-reach-25-cent-gdp-2019  
 
R&D Budget : Austrian Institute of Economic Research
International Differences in Basic Research Grant Funding - a Systematic Comparison
https://www.fwf.ac.at/fileadmin/files/Dokumente/Ueber_den_FWF/Publikationen/FWF-relevante_Publikationen/WIFO_EFI_StuDIS_09_2019.pdf  
 
Open Access : London School of Economics
The Open Tide – How openness in research and communication is becoming the default setting
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2019/03/11/the-open-tide-how-openness-in-research-and-communication-is-becoming-the-default-setting/  
https://digitalscience.figshare.com/articles/The_Ascent_of_Open_Access/7618751 


 

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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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