Més de 800 empreses formen a Catalunya un sector que agrupa els àmbits farmacèutic, biotecnològic, de productes sanitaris i de salut electrònica. Aquest informe d’ACCIÓ recull totes les seves dades, tendències i oportunitats.

El Pla Barcelona Ciència té per objectiu impulsar la nostra ciutat com a capital europea en recerca i innovació. El pla, que es desplegarà en base a la col·laboració i el consens entre centres de recerca i empreses, universitats, administracions i la ciutadania, s’articularà en base a tres eixos fonamentals: el suport municipal a la recerca i la innovació; la consolidació de la capitalitat científica de Barcelona,  i l’impuls d’un laboratori urbà d’innovació.

Este informe presenta datos del personal científico del CSIC recogidos a 31 de diciembre de 2017. Siguiendo las recomendaciones de la Comisión Europea, se hace un seguimiento de la situación de las mujeres científicas en el organismo desde el año 2001, en que se inició la publicación de estadísticas desagregadas por sexo.

Los objetivos que se proponen en este estudio son: 1. Formalizar un conocimiento tácito sobre la calidad de las editoriales académicas, tanto españolas y extranjeras, generando rankings de prestigio de las editoriales a partir del conocimiento experto. Esta formalización del conocimiento contribuye a hacerlo más manejable en los procesos de evaluación pero también más objetivo, pues en el indicador diseñado para establecer el prestigio de la editorial (ICEE3) intervienen única y exclusivamente las informaciones que los académicos expresan en el cuestionario. 2. Actualizar y ampliar los valores de prestigio de las editoriales a partir de la percepción de la comunidad académica española. Se actualiza porque se realiza una nueva consulta a la comunidad académica, que complementa a las realizadas en 2012 y 2014. Se amplía porque se incorporan a esta consulta los especialistas de Ciencia, Tecnología y Medicina4, áreas que nos estaban presentes en los estudios previos. 3. Diferenciar los valores de prestigio de las editoriales en función de la vinculación o no del investigador –en calidad de autor- a las editoriales. 4. Identificar el grado de conocimiento y reconocimiento de la comunidad académica hacia colecciones de libros académicos de determinadas editoriales e identificar cuáles de ellas son más prestigiosas. 5. Conocer las variables que tienen más relevancia en la determinación de la calidad y el prestigio de una editorial académica

This report has been prepared for a Mutual Learning Exercise (MLE) on the evaluation of business R&D grant schemes. It focuses on three incremental innovations in the evaluation of support schemes for business R&D and innovation namely: the added-value of taking a behavioural change perspective and measuring and understanding how the R&D and innovation behaviour of companies changes in response to policy measures; recent advances in mixed-method approaches, including econometrics, the use of control groups and qualitative methods, in the evaluation of the impact of business R&D support measures; and the opportunities and challenges of big data in policy evaluations, including data linking. MLE participants provided examples of recent evaluations and they stressed current and planned activities for improving their evaluations of R&D and innovation support schemes.

The research & innovation divide in Europe remains a pressing challenge. In the last three years of Horizon 2020 efforts will be intensified to spread excellence and broaden participation across Europe. This will be achieved by encouraging organisations in Widening countries to further develop and take better advantage of their research and innovation potential through a number of specific measures involving investing, mentoring, networking, communication and thematic activities.

To support countries in reforming their research and innovation systems, the Directorate-General for Research & Innovation (DG RTD) of the European Commission set up a Policy Support Facility (PSF) under the European Framework Programme for Research & Innovation ‘Horizon 2020’. It aims to support Member States and associated countries in improving their national science, technology and innovation systems. This report documents a mutual learning exercise on performance-based research funding systems (PRFS) for universities. Armenia, Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Italy, Moldova, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Turkey all participated in the exercise, which was supported by a group of five experts. This report summarises the main learnings drawn from the exercise and makes a number of policy recommendations about how and when to design and use PRFS for policymakers and PRFS designers. A longer report is published in parallel with this one, which presents the evidence and analysis underlying this one, together with the lessons and recommendations.

Publicación que recoge los resultados de la encuesta anual de opinión realizada por la Fundación CYD y dirigida a un panel de expertos. La encuesta pretende valorar la importancia de un conjunto de aspectos vinculados al desarrollo de la tercera misión de la universidad clasificados en tres grupos: marco general, formación e inserción laboral, y transferencia de tecnología; así como la evolución de una serie de tendencias.

Esta Memoria de Actividades recoge la actividad de la Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECYT) durante el 2017.

The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW), with the scientific support by the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), assesses the Performance of Small and Medium Enterprises in Europe, depending on the performance in the ten principles of: (1) Entrepreneurship, (2) ‘Second chance’, (3) ‘Think small first’, (4) ‘Responsive administration’, (5) State aid & public procurement, (6) Access to finance, (7) Single market, (8) Skills and innovation, (9) Environment, and (10) Internationalisation. This JRC technical report adopts a robust consensus clustering methodology to group European countries in 5 robust Clusters, based on similar performance in these principles. Then, Cluster average values are exploited to analyse strengths and weaknesses of European countries within the Small Business Act principle and to derive a prioritization setting as well as a benchmarking tool to guide European Member States in improving along the ten principles.

Bundles of journal subscriptions offered by publishers and acquired by libraries, the so-called ‘Big Deals’, are one of the dominant business models in academic publishing. The are a are a highly-disputed business model that needs to be further analysed before ‘Big Deals’ can be used as an instrument to implement and increase Open Access, or dropped as an approach altogether. This workshop, and its subsequent report, was as organised to trigger further expert discussions on the current business models and their alternatives, as a follow-up to the April 2016 Science Europe Briefing Paper on ‘Open Access Business Models and Current Trends in the Open Access Publishing System.

RECERCAT, el butlletí electrònic de la Secretaria d'Universitats i Recerca amb informació sobre recerca, ciència i tecnologia, és una eina de comunicació al servei de la difusió de la recerca d'excel·lència i de la tasca que estan duent a terme universitats, empreses, centres, grups i personal investigador a Catalunya.

The US remains by far the largest producer of high quality Earth and environmental sciences research, but China’s output has grown rapidly since 2012 to take over second place from the United Kingdom. For every other top ten country producer of Earth and environmental sciences research, output has been declining. Climate change is the issue that looms largest. Just as we depended on scientists to identify the problem, we look to them for solutions. As this supplement makes clear, there are no grounds for complacency.