Scientists Can Publish Their Best Work at Any Age
New equation also suggests way to predict a researcher's potential to produce top work.
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See How the Most Influential Science Comes in Waves
Science says career success is random. Here's what that looks like.
Hey Scientists, How Much of Your Publication Success is Due to Dumb Luck?
Papers are like “lottery tickets,” researchers conclude
An Entrepreneurial Society Needs an Entrepreneurial State
Government support for startups is underrated, says Mariana Mazzucato.
International Strategy for Research and Innovation
A communication setting out a new strategy for international cooperation in research and innovation, in particular with a view to implementing Horizon 2020.
Let Researchers Try New Paths
Demand for steady output stymies discovery. To pursue the most important research, scientists must be allowed to shift their focus.
Business Backs the Basics
Long-term basic research, substantially funded by the U.S. government, underlies some of industry's most profitable innovations.
The Administration’s Report on the Future of AI
A new report from the US Administration focuses on the opportunities, considerations, and challenges of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Why Scientists Should Learn to Love Reddit
You’ll find communities thirsty for your findings – and a space to demonstrate measurable ‘impact’ to your heart’s content.
The Artificial Intelligence that reads science
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.
How scientific culture discourages new ideas
Recent studies highlight why policy changes are needed to make science more receptive to novelty, our columnist writes.
Denmark, a new design for innovation
Denmark, a new design for innovation - 2014-2019, speech by Carlos Moedas.
100 Examples of President Obama’s Leadership in Science, Technology, and Innovation
100 Examples of President Obama’s Leadership in Science, Technology, and Innovation
“We’ll restore science to its rightful place." President Obama’s Inaugural Address, 2009
Europe's Most Innovative Universities
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.
Plan to make programming mandatory at schools a step to foster creativity
It is essential that computer programming to be taught in schools will lead to improving children’s ability to think logically and creatively.
Making Science with Google
Check out Science Journal-- a digital science notebook to inspire kids and adults explore the world around them using sensors and data!
Science: Disrupt
Podcast discussions with the innovators, iconoclasts, and entrepreneurs intent on creating change in science.
Research groups going to war again over small business funding
Academic and entrepreneurial communities battle over bills to boost the research set-aside for SBIR
Twelve principles for open innovation 2.0
Evolve governance structures, practices and metrics to accelerate innovation in an era of digital connectivity, writes Martin Curley.
Q&A: Helga Nowotny
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, follow the money - if you can
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.
Why scientists should learn to embrace failure
Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley live by the motto of “Fail fast, fail often." Scientists would do well to likewise embrace failure.
Nature Outlook on Innovation
In the fiercely competitive world of drug discovery and development, secrecy is no longer as important as it once was.
A guide to new data and measurement in innovation policy
A look at novel methods to improve measurement of innovation and growth in the modern economy.
Crazy diamonds
Billionaires are funding lots of grandiose plans. Welcome their ambition
Royal Society statement on changes to the research, higher education and innovation landscapes
Royal Society statement on changes to the research, higher education and innovation landscapes
Royal Society's President, Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, on the key principles to guide the future of UK's research.
Are the disruptions of uberisation a bane or boon for science?
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
Supporting Europe's innovators through open innovation - 2014-2019
EU excludes open source from new tech standards
Op-ed: Big US companies could use patent licensing to throttle EU startups.
When the payoff for academics drops, commercialization suffers
A 2002 law in Norway that ended the country's long-running practice of giving academics 100% ownership of their intellectual property and adopted a U.S.-style system caused the per capita number of patents from academics to drop by 53% in the next 5 years.
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