La misión del Informe ASEBIO 2017 es analizar los distintos ámbitos que componen el escenario en el que se desarrolla la biotecnología en España, así como conocer su situación actual y tendencias.

The report sets out recommendations on how research libraries and information infrastructures can deal with scholarly metrics, and how to get started with the development of services to support this. The recommendations are grouped into four important types of activities relating to metrics:
- Discovery and Discoverability
- Showcasing Achievements
- Service Development
- Research Assessment

Embracing Open Science is critical if we are to make science more collaborative, reproducible, transparent and impactful. Open Science undoubtedly has the power to positively influence society, but its implementation is not yet universal.

A revolution is required: one which opens up research processes and changes mindsets in favour of a world where policies, tools and infrastructures universally support the growth and sharing of knowledge.

Research libraries are well placed to make that revolution happen, and LIBER's Open Science Roadmap outlines the specific actions libraries can take to champion Open Science, both within and beyond their own institutions.

As we explain in detail throughout this document, libraries need to advocate for Open Science locally and internationally, to support Open Science through tools and services and to expand the impact of their work through collaboration and partnerships. LIBER has shaped its 2018-2022 Strategy to support and enable Open Science and it is our hope that this Roadmap will help Europe’s research libraries to do the same.

This document was written during spring 2018, when the Open Science Policy Platform (OSPP) produced integrated advice for the EC and key stakeholders. People from across the LIBER community translated the OSPP recommendations for libraries and combined them with suggestions drawn from their own expertise and experiences.

El Baròmetre del sector tecnològic a Catalunya 2018 és la desena edició d’una eina que s’ha convertit en l’estudi de referència del sector tecnològic i digital a Catalunya. La desena edició recull les percepcions d’una mostra de més de 1.000 empreses (499 empreses d’oferta i 526 empreses de demanda), cosa que representa l’edició amb major representativitat del teixit empresarial català. Per a complementar les dades extretes de les enquestes, s’han entrevistat a 10 líders d’opinió i experts del sector.

El Baròmetre és un estudi que analitza la situació del sector a Barcelona i a Catalunya i actua com a un marc excel·lent per a generar reflexió sobre la realitat del sector i la seva elasticitat, capacitat de creixement i tendències.

Annual summary report on good practices in the implementation of Joint Programming Initiatives (JPIs)

EU agencies within the EU Agency Network for Scientific Advice (EU ANSA) provide scientific advice to EU policy makers across a broad spectrum of disciplines from public health to gender equality. The primary role of the EU agencies in ANSA is to collect, use and communicate scientific evidence, and hence there is an onus to identify and communicate the inherent uncertainty that is intrinsic to the scientific process. Doing so ensures that policy makers better understand the strength of the evidence base presented, and that resulting policy is made on the basis of fully informed choice. This study presents a preliminary exploration of approaches taken by EU ANSA members to address scientific uncertainty in their scientific outputs. It aims to provide a basis to identify common themes and issues, and stimulate further thinking about the definition, identification and communication of scientific uncertainty in scientific advice outputs from the agencies. The methodology involved development of a simple framework to assess; a) overarching guidance on handling uncertainty in each agency, and b) specific scientific outputs from each agency to understand how uncertainty was handled’ ‘in practice’. Participating agencies were also invited to submit pertinent examples of scientific outputs which illustrate good practice and challenges in handling scientific uncertainty.

This study reports from a workshop on 'New Technologies and Regional Policy: Towards the Next cohesion policy Framework'. The European Parliament's Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA) Panel organised the workshop in Brussels on 16 October 2017. The objective was to provide input to the debate on the next EU cohesion policy, after 2020. The workshop focused on the impact of new technologies at the European and regional levels, affecting EU cohesion policy and regional innovation-led growth. Members of the European Parliament, specialists from the European Commission, representatives of several regions, Member States and organisations made workshop contributions. See the Appendix for the workshop programme. After the workshop, the author prepared this document as a discussion paper according to the major themes of the workshop, while taking into account the overall scope and the principal content of the workshop. Further inputs on the same and related topics were collected through interviews with EU representatives and other specialists. Policy reports and observations in the scientific literature provided facts and background. See the list of persons consulted and the source material used, detailed at the end of this report. The text that follows relates mainly to EU cohesion policy and includes analyses of the territorial dimension of innovation-led economic growth and relevant policy issues. Particular focus is put on information and communications technologies (ICT) and digital platform economics, as well as on science and technology parks and urban innovation areas. This study also provides policy options for the legislator.