By sharing their experiences, early-career scientists can help to make the case for increased government funding for researchers.

Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley live by the motto of “Fail fast, fail often." Scientists would do well to likewise embrace failure.

Or 'how to tweet your way to honour and glory'.

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.

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.

The value that Australia places on publication quality over quantity has elevated it into the top echelon of science. Can it now improve its flagging track record in commercialization?

If the work is properly monitored, there is no reason not to trust the results

The present system means researchers with useful characteristics such as caution and humility may find it harder to get grants

Has teaching been the poor cousin of research for too long?

European funding has made up for a shortfall in U.K. science spending

Governments need to tighten regulation if the sharing of clinical-trial data is to succeed.

Evolve governance structures, practices and metrics to accelerate innovation in an era of digital connectivity, writes Martin Curley.