Informe sobre la actividad y tendencias en la inversión de Startups.

In the report Bibliometrics for Research Management and Research Evaluation - A Brief Introduction, CWTS brings together essential information about the use of bibliometrics in research management and research evaluation. This report is intended for anyone with a professional interest in the application of bibliometrics in a research management and research evaluation context.

La COSCE publica un avance del análisis del Proyecto de Presupuestos  Generales del Estado para 2018 presentado por el Gobierno. Los datos muestran que los fondos destinados a la ciencia crecen respecto de 2017, en el total, un 6,8% contando la inflación prevista, un incremento superior al del ejercicio anterior, pero que sigue sin corregir los déficits generados en los últimos años, en especial por lo que respecta a la inversión en recursos humanos y su formación.  Más preocupantes resultan las cifras provisionales disponibles sobre la ejecución del presupuesto de 2017, que solo ha sido del 29,7 % de los recursos intervenidos por la IGAE.

The Innovation Radar is a European Commission initiative to identify high potential innovations and innovators in EU-funded research and innovation projects.

The report focuses on COST’s efforts to empower and retain young researchers and innovators - one of the priorities of the COST Strategic Plan, launched in December 2017. The 10 success stories featured in the report show examples of early career investigators who, thanks to their involvement in COST Action activities, got new research positions, have had opportunities to learn from their more experienced peers across Europe or have contributed to scientific discoveries. In some cases, those development opportunities have also meant going back to work in their native countries.

The European Parliament (EP) and the Council asked the European Court of Auditors (ECA) for input for the preliminary legislative discussion on the successor of Horizon 2020 (“FP9”). This briefing paper addresses these requests and focusses on the issue of simplifying the European Union’s (EU) research Framework Programmes.

The brochure responds to the increased need for information – witnessed by the European IPR Helpdesk Training Team during workshops – on how IP management in Horizon 2020 relates to communication, dissemination and exploitation. It became clear that there still exists some confusion about these terms, and that despite already existing manuals a concise document was missing that tied the three concepts together on the one hand, but also helped to better define the individual terms on the other.

The R&I Observatory country report 2017 provides a brief analysis of the R&I system covering the economic context, main actors, funding trends & human resources, policies to address R&I challenges, and R&I in national and regional smart specialisation strategies. Data is from Eurostat, unless otherwise referenced and is correct as at January 2018. Data used from other international sources is also correct to that date. The report provides a state-of-play and analysis of the national level R&I system and its challenges, to support the European Semester.

Within few months the EU Council will adopt the next Multiannual Financial Framework, which will set up the whole Union budget for 2021-27, as well as the funds allocation for each one of the main chapters, namely Agriculture policy, Cohesion and Competitiveness.
By defining in which areas the EU should invest more or less over the seven years, the MFF is an expression of political priorities as well as a budgetary planning tool.
Many institutional players of the first two above-mentioned chapters are already catalyzing the general public attention in order to underline the need of a larger budget over the next period. As Representatives of the most important Research Organizations and Academia, you are perfectly aware that Horizon 2020, for its high ambition and targets, has been severely underfunded (as the mid-term report published in July 2017 clearly evidenced). It is now the right time for recognizing research and research based innovation as the main drivers of EU competitiveness and growth. This opportunity will be pivotal to rethink R&I policies and investments in Europe, putting research and innovation at the forefront, towards full economic recovery, while aiming at a better welfare for EU citizens. As Presidents of the main national RPOs, we have been felling committed to make a step in order to convey the wish of our peers, as well the expectations of those who feel confident that research and innovation deserves a key role in our society. To this end, we conceived a “Manifesto”, which briefly describes the current EU landscape and underlines the need of a more competitive Europe. We hope you could endorse it and share with your colleagues.

This STOA study investigates the potential employment effects of new information and communication technologies, by examining the relationship between innovation, new technologies, employment and inequality. It reviews the existing literature and experiences of previous technological revolutions, and argues that the race between job creation through new products, and job destruction from process innovation, has been won in the past by the job-creating effects of innovation. It concludes that there is an uneven distribution in the costs of digitalisation, because of the skills-biased nature of technological change - so the challenge of the future lies in coping with rising inequality from technological change. The study also proposes a set of policy options for dealing with the employment effects of digitalisation.

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