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“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.
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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
Op-ed: Big US companies could use patent licensing to throttle EU startups.
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.
Government-funded research is behind any significant new product
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) gets poor grades from the European Union’s financial watchdog.
Big-name scientists may end up stifling progress in their fields
In this paper we explore the effectiveness of selected research and innovation policies among EU countries.
Professor Matthew Wallenstein wants to bring what he has learned as an entrepreneur to his colleagues in academia.
Apple announced today the launch of CareKit, a new open source software platform that allows people to develop their own health care apps.
The contest is another milestone in AI as Lee Sedol, Go's best player, is defeated again
The fascinating story of the discovery of nuclear fission began with an error that earned Enrico Fermi (see picture) a Nobel Prize for the apparent but incorrect discovery of the transuranic elements. Careful repetition and extension of the experiments finally led to the correct interpretation by Hahn, Meitner, Strassmann, Frisch, and Bohr as an effect from nuclear fission of the “small impurity” of (0.7 %) contained in natural uranium.
The success rate of discoveries would be improved if we could find out how to innovate.
Scientists can be stubborn. They can use their gravitas to steamroll new ideas. Which means those new ideas often only prevail when older scientists die.
An analysis of the essential tension identifies institutional forces that sustain tradition and suggestions of policy interventions to foster innovation.
