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2019年05月07日

+STI Policy Articles Overseas (April 22-26, 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)
Indicators of R&D in Small Businesses
https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/2019/nsf19316/  

 
USA : Wall Street Journal
How the U.S. Surrendered to China on Scientific Research
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-u-s-surrendered-to-china-on-scientific-research-11555666200?shareToken=st8d3f96d8bdd04f92a74136156eaacc4a  
 
USA : University of Michigan
U-M study explores lab-to-market successes at research universities
https://record.umich.edu/articles/study-explores-lab-market-successes-research-universities  
 
USA : Foreign Affairs
The New Revolution in Military Affairs
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2019-04-16/new-revolution-military-affairs  
 
USA and China : Nature
How US–China political tensions are affecting science
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01270-y 
 
(Reference: Inside Higher Education)
Science vs. Security
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/04/16/federal-granting-agencies-and-lawmakers-step-scrutiny-foreign-research 
 
EU : Science|Business
European Parliament endorses future science and technology programmes worth over €160B
https://sciencebusiness.net/framework-programmes/news/european-parliament-endorses-future-science-and-technology-programmes  
 
EU : Science|Business
European University Association (EUA): Horizon Europe gets greenlight – Time to scale up
https://sciencebusiness.net/network-news/eua-horizon-europe-gets-greenlight-time-scale  
 
EU and UK : Science|Business
Moedas: ‘I will fight for having the UK on board’ in Horizon Europe
https://sciencebusiness.net/framework-programmes/news/european-parliament-endorses-future-science-and-technology-programmes  
 
India : Nature
Indian scientists launch preprint repository to boost research quality
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01082-0  
 
SDGs : Clarivate Analytics
Navigating the Structure of Research on Sustainable Development Goals
https://clarivate.com/g/sustainable-development-goals/  
 
Tax Policy for Innovation : National Bureau of Economic Research
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25773  
https://eml.berkeley.edu/~bhhall/papers/BHH19_innov_tax_policy.pdf 
 
Book: Introduction by Inside Higher Education
'Jump-Starting America' as an Invitation to a Conversation with Economic Conservatives
https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning/jump-starting-america-invitation-conversation-economic-conservatives#.XL0j-PCOaik.twitter  


 
Innovation and Society : US National Public Radio
Resistance Is Futile
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/23/716521520/resistance-is-futile  

Significance in Statistics : Science News
Statisticians want to abandon science’s standard measure of ‘significance’

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/statisticians-standard-measure-significance-p-values  
 
(References)
Scientists rise up against statistical significance: Nature
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00857-9 
It’s time to talk about ditching statistical significance: Nature
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00874-8? 
The Importance of Predefined Rules and Prespecified Statistical Analyses : Journal of the American Medical Association
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2730486


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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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