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Innovation

Good Practices in Mission-oriented Innovation Strategies and Their Implementation

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Innovation

Good Practices in Mission-oriented Innovation Strategies and Their Implementation

Modern innovation policies should target in equal measure both economic competitiveness and societal progress. They should be informed by ambitious, overarching principles-based strategies that enable us to formulate specific political goals, or missions. We also need governance structures that allow for the agile, participatory and inclusive implementation of innovation policy measures. Presenting good examples of such strategies and structures, this study examines what these examples have to offer in terms of lessons learned.

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Ethics

Enhancing the Right to Science

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Ethics

Enhancing the Right to Science

Enhancing the right to science is increasingly recognized as a central piece in the multi-facetted puzzle of solving the triple planetary crisis. Its role as a cross-cutting catalyst in relation to other human rights dimensions of major global challenges from pandemics, biodiversity, toxics to climate change, calls for far more comprehensive attention to the bundle of rights linking science, scientists and scientific practice to contemporary sustainability responses

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Funding

NIH to experiment with high-risk grants

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NIH to experiment with high-risk grants

NIH considers supporting more individual researchers rather than projects.

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Metrics

Novel Processes and Metrics for a Scientific Evaluation

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Novel Processes and Metrics for a Scientific Evaluation

In this approach, the goal of a scientist is transformed from convincing an editorial board through a vertical process to convincing peers through an horizontal one.

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Reproducibility

Scientific Productivity: An Exploratory Study of Metrics and Incentives

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Reproducibility

Scientific Productivity: An Exploratory Study of Metrics and Incentives

Current bibliometric incentives discourage innovative studies and encourage scientists to shift their research to subjects already actively investigated.

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Collaboration
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China

Why It Would Be a Dangerous Folly to End US-China Science Pact

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Collaboration
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China

Why It Would Be a Dangerous Folly to End US-China Science Pact

With renewal of the two countries' decades-long science pact still on hold, there is too much talk about the risks of collaboration - and too little about the benefits.
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Open Access

Plan S and Open Access in Latin America

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Open Access

Plan S and Open Access in Latin America

Open Access publishing is more widespread in Latin America than in any other region of the world, and continues to grow. We sat down with CLACSO's Open Access Advisor Dominique Babini to find out why.

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Interview
Publishing

Science Should be Open to all Not Behind Paywalls

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Science Should be Open to all Not Behind Paywalls

Interview with Alexandra Elbakyan, creator of the site Sci-Hub.

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Equality

Why Are There Few Women in Tech? Watch a Recruiting Session

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Why Are There Few Women in Tech? Watch a Recruiting Session

New Stanford research shows how companies alienate women before they start working.

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Does Productivity Diminish Research Quality?

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Does Productivity Diminish Research Quality?

More papers correlate with top-cited research for more-established academics, but not newly minted professors, according to a study.

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Grass-roots Grant-writing Approaches Can Help Researchers at Small Institutions to Succeed

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Grass-roots Grant-writing Approaches Can Help Researchers at Small Institutions to Succeed

At small or minority-serving institutions, time and resources that are needed to draft successful grant proposals are often in short supply. But help is available.
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Funding

The history and future of funding for scientific research

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The history and future of funding for scientific research

For half a century, the government funded research. Times are changing.

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Science holds the key to a more sustainable farm future

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Science holds the key to a more sustainable farm future

As work on 2018 farm bill picks up pace, remember money spent on agricultural science is money well spent.

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Publishing

Why Hasn’t the Academy Taken Back Control of Publishing Already?

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Why Hasn’t the Academy Taken Back Control of Publishing Already?

Academic publishing is dominated by a small number of commercial firms. How can the academy take control of scholarly publishing?

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Careers

Why Academic Administration Was the Right Choice for Me

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Why Academic Administration Was the Right Choice for Me

I found job satisfaction and exciting opportunities in supporting other academics - but it's a career path that many don't consider. Try it.

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ERC

More Horizon Europe Draft Work Programmes Leak Online

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More Horizon Europe Draft Work Programmes Leak Online

Science|Business has published an exhaustive but unapproved draft Horizon Europe work programme detailing the calls for climate and mobility projects for the next two years and an early draft outlining bioeconomy, food and environment calls.

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Public Health

Why Telling People They Don't Need Masks Backfired

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Why Telling People They Don't Need Masks Backfired

To help manage the shortage, the authorities sent a message that made them untrustworthy.

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Research Data
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ERC
COVID-19

Research Funding in Focus: Even More Transparent Thanks to Data Stories

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Research Data
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COVID-19

Research Funding in Focus: Even More Transparent Thanks to Data Stories

The SNSF meticulously examines its funding activities. From now on, it will publish these analyses on its data portal. To kick things off, Open Access, ERC grants and women scientists during the pandemic are in focus.

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Peer Review
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Scientific Publishing: The First Year of a New Era

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Scientific Publishing: The First Year of a New Era

What happened when eLife decided to eliminate accept/reject decisions after peer review?
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COVID-19
Open Data

COVID-19 Data Portal - Accelerating Scientific Research Through Data

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COVID-19 Data Portal - Accelerating Scientific Research Through Data

We need open data, especially open SARS-CoV-2 sequence data, and open science to beat COVID-19 and to prepare for future outbreaks.

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Scientific Method

The Scientific Method - An Overview

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Scientific Method

The Scientific Method - An Overview

Science is not a belief system. It is rather a defined process we can use to accurately answer questions and come to a better understanding of our natural world.

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Science Culture
Publishing

Octopus: a Radical New Approach to Scientific Publishing

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Publishing

Octopus: a Radical New Approach to Scientific Publishing

In order to align incentives with good science, we need to move to a system in which work that is well thought-out, well carried-out, and well communicated – regardless of the ‘story’ it tells – is given the highest reward. Changing what is rewarded will change what is done.

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Science Communication

How to Tell a Compelling Story in Scientific Presentations

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Science Communication

How to Tell a Compelling Story in Scientific Presentations

State your main finding in your title, and don't forget to use the word 'but', says Bruce Kirchoff.

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Misconduct

Researchers Frustrated by Misconduct Probe

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Misconduct

Researchers Frustrated by Misconduct Probe

Alfredo Fusco denies claims that his research lab hired a photo studio to manipulate images.

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Metrics
Switzerland

Beyond Impact Factor, H-Index and University Rankings: Evaluate Science in More Meaningful Ways

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Metrics
Switzerland

Beyond Impact Factor, H-Index and University Rankings: Evaluate Science in More Meaningful Ways

Swiss Academy of Sciences conference on metrics and assessment.

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Africa
COVID-19

The Pandemic Appears to Have Spared Africa So Far. Scientists Are Struggling to Explain Why.

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COVID-19

The Pandemic Appears to Have Spared Africa So Far. Scientists Are Struggling to Explain Why.

Antibody studies suggest large numbers of infections have occurred but the death toll remains low.

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Prizes

Winners Of The 2022 Breakthrough Prizes In Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics And Mathematics Announced

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Winners Of The 2022 Breakthrough Prizes In Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics And Mathematics Announced

The Breakthrough Prize Foundation and its founding sponsors today announced the winners of the 10th annual Breakthrough Prizes, awarding a total of $15.75 million to an esteemed group of laureates and early-career scientists.

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Open Data

Data sharing will pay dividends

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Data sharing will pay dividends

As public pressure builds for drug companies to make more results available from clinical trials, the industry should not forget that it relies on collective goodwill to test new therapies.

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The 10 principles of open research data : Scientific Data

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The 10 principles of open research data : Scientific Data

With the publication of the Concordat on Open Research Data last week, the UK further cemented its leadership position in promoting access to tax payer-funded research data.

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Preprints
Publishing

Will the Pandemic Permanently Alter Scientific Publishing?

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Publishing

Will the Pandemic Permanently Alter Scientific Publishing?

The push for rapid and open publishing could take off - although financial pressures lie ahead: part 4 in a series on science after the pandemic.

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