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The European Commission and the European Investment Fund are inviting applications for setting up and managing one or more private-sector led, market-driven Pan-European Venture Capital Funds-of-Funds.
An unbending reward system prevents early-career researchers taking full advantage of the digital world.
New equation also suggests way to predict a researcher's potential to produce top work.
Science says career success is random. Here's what that looks like.
Papers are like “lottery tickets,” researchers conclude
Government support for startups is underrated, says Mariana Mazzucato.
A communication setting out a new strategy for international cooperation in research and innovation, in particular with a view to implementing Horizon 2020.
Demand for steady output stymies discovery. To pursue the most important research, scientists must be allowed to shift their focus.
Long-term basic research, substantially funded by the U.S. government, underlies some of industry's most profitable innovations.
A new report from the US Administration focuses on the opportunities, considerations, and challenges of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
You’ll find communities thirsty for your findings – and a space to demonstrate measurable ‘impact’ to your heart’s content.
Iris is an Artificial Intelligence that starts out as a Science Assistant; helping you find the science you need. Over time she will learn, slowly but surely becoming a Scientist herself.
Recent studies highlight why policy changes are needed to make science more receptive to novelty, our columnist writes.
Denmark, a new design for innovation - 2014-2019, speech by Carlos Moedas.
“We’ll restore science to its rightful place." President Obama’s Inaugural Address, 2009
At first glance, the most innovative universities in Europe don't appear to have much in common. Some are Catholic schools, some are secular, others are state-run and some are private. One is 920 years old. Another has been an independent institution for less than a decade. They’re scattered across the continent, some in large cities, others in rural areas.
It is essential that computer programming to be taught in schools will lead to improving children’s ability to think logically and creatively.
Check out Science Journal-- a digital science notebook to inspire kids and adults explore the world around them using sensors and data!
Podcast discussions with the innovators, iconoclasts, and entrepreneurs intent on creating change in science.
Academic and entrepreneurial communities battle over bills to boost the research set-aside for SBIR
Evolve governance structures, practices and metrics to accelerate innovation in an era of digital connectivity, writes Martin Curley.
Austrian social scientist Helga Nowotny was president of the European Research Council between 2010 and 2013. Now a professor emerita of ETH Zurich and author of The Cunning of Uncertainty (Polity, 2015), Nowotny discusses the growing pressure to capitalize on academic research, and how countries can get it right in the absence of a universal recipe.
In science as in politics, most people agree that transparency is essential. Top journals now require authors to disclose their funding sources so that readers can judge the possibility of bias, and the British Medical Journal recently required authors to disclose their data as well so that experts can run independent analyses of the results. But as transparency becomes the standard, many academics are resisting the trend without pushback from their universities.
Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley live by the motto of “Fail fast, fail often." Scientists would do well to likewise embrace failure.
In the fiercely competitive world of drug discovery and development, secrecy is no longer as important as it once was.
A look at novel methods to improve measurement of innovation and growth in the modern economy.
Billionaires are funding lots of grandiose plans. Welcome their ambition
Royal Society's President, Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, on the key principles to guide the future of UK's research.
For every characteristic of uberisation, there is a parallel in the world of research. This raises the question of whether research was "uberised" before Uber even existed?
Supporting Europe's innovators through open innovation - 2014-2019
