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2019年04月16日

+STI Policy Articles Overseas (April 8-12, 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 : Union of Concerned Scientists
6 Ways to Make Your Science Advocacy Effective at the State and Local Levels
https://blog.ucsusa.org/science-blogger/6-ways-to-make-your-science-advocacy-effective-at-the-state-and-local-levels 
 
USA : Federation of American Scientists
Federation of American Scientists launches Congressional Science Policy Initiative
https://fas.org/congressional-science-policy-initiative/ 
 
USA : Massachusetts Institute of Technology
New review process for 'elevated-risk' international proposals
https://orgchart.mit.edu/node/27/letters_to_community/new-review-process-elevated-risk-international-proposals 

USA : Science
National Academy of Sciences will vote on ejecting sexual harassers
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/04/national-academy-sciences-will-vote-ejecting-sexual-harassers

USA : Science Coalition
Thanks to 25 years of science
https://www.sciencecoalition.org/thanks-to-25-years-of-science/  

USA : Journal of the American Medical Association
The Importance of Predefined Rules and Prespecified Statistical Analyses
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2730486  
 
EU : Science|Businness
Horizon Europe sign-off ‘sends signal’ to EU budget negotiators, says Moedas
https://sciencebusiness.net/framework-programmes/news/horizon-europe-sign-sends-signal-eu-budget-negotiators-says-moedas  
 
EU : Science|Business
How the EU could embrace the 'noble task' of defence R&D
https://sciencebusiness.net/news/how-eu-could-embrace-noble-task-defence-rd  
 
EU : *Research
EU companies’ R&D spending growing four times faster in China
https://www.researchresearch.com/news/article/?articleId=1380704 
 
UK : Nature
Brexit has already irreparably damaged research
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01060-6  
 
(Reference: *Research)
Beyond Brexit
https://www.researchresearch.com/news/article/?articleId=1380612 


 
UK : Guardian
Are PhDs just cheap labour for universities?

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/apr/01/are-phds-just-cheap-labour-for-universities

Brazil : Nature
Brazil's government freezes nearly half of its science spending
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01079-9?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nature%2Frss%2Fcurrent+%28Nature+-+Issue%29  

Science during crisis : Science
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6435/5  
 
Elsevier’s Presence on Campuses Spans More Than Journals. That Has Some Scholars Worried. : The Chronicle of Higher Education
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Elsevier-s-Presence-on/246048?cid=wcontentgrid  

GDP-B: Accounting for the Value of New and Free Goods in the Digital Economy : National Bureau of Economic Research
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25695 
http://ide.mit.edu/sites/default/files/publications/SSRN-id3356697%20gdp2.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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