Nou entorn de suport i networking per a dones professionals, directives i emprenedores que vulguin desenvolupar la seva trajectòria professional, sigui quin sigui el seu sector.

L’objectiu principal de l’estudi és donar a conèixer la recerca que es duu a terme a les comarques que formen la Catalunya Central. A més de la quantitat de publicacions, s’ha volgut donar un indicador de qualitat que valori l’activitat de recerca que es fa a ciutats de la Catalunya Central i en les institucions on es desenvolupa. Per això, s’ha utilitzat com a indicador l’índex h, una mesura de la producció científica que combina qualitat i quantitat, integrant la quantitat de publicacions amb el nombre de vegades que s'han citat. En concret es dona l’índex h5 que correspon a un període de cinc anys.

L’Observatori Forestal Català (OFC) és una plataforma gestionada des del CTFC,  amb el suport del DARP que pretén esdevenir un referent a la consulta d’informació tant per a l’usuari directament relacionat amb el sector forestal (administració, empresari, estudiant, científic), com per a qualsevol persona interessada en els àmbits o temàtiques relacionades amb el medi forestal del nostre país.

Presentaciones de las jornadas que se llevaron a cabo durante las XXVI Jornadas de Investigación de las Universidades Española, organizadas por la Comisión Sectorial de I+D+I de la Conferencia de Rectores de las Universidades Españolas (CRUE) y la Universitat de les Illes Balears, celebradas en Palma de Mallorca los días 28, 29 y 30 de noviembre de 2018.

Deloitte Global’s annual TMT predictions serve as guideposts for future business strategy by providing a 1-5 year outlook on key trends in the global technology, media, and telecommunication industry sectors. The trends help identify key challenges and areas of focus for the world’s TMT brands as they navigate the impact of new technologies shaping the future of industry.

A work group on benchmarking and performance management of research and innovation support services among universities and research institutions was initiated at the EARMA (European Association of Research Managers and Administrators) leadership event in Brussels, April 2018. The objective of the group is to propose a set of indicators enabling institutions to benchmark research and innovation support services with other institutions in Europe, related to services provided to researchers within the European framework programs for research and innovation (Horizon 2020). As part of this work, this survey is sent to European institutions with research and innovation support services to map existing practices within performance management and benchmarking. The data collected will be analyzed and may be presented in conference papers and journal articles, and these papers and articles will also be forwarded to those who have participated in the survey.

The EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard is published annually since 2004 by the European Commission (Directorate-General for Research and Innovation and the Joint Research Centre). The 2018 edition of the Scoreboard comprises the 2500 companies investing the largest sums in R&D in the world in 2017/18. The Scoreboard data, taken from companies’ latest published accounts, comprise key indicators on the 2500 parent companies and more than 700k subsidiaries that enable assessing companies' economic and innovation performance. The 2500 companies, based in 46 countries, each invested over €25m in R&D for a total of €736.4 billion. This is equivalent to 90% of the world’s business-funded R&D. The Scoreboard includes a separate listing of the top 1000 EU companies with R&D investment over €8 million.

This report aimed to map the existing transnational collaborative partnerships between higher education institutions in Europe. In doing so it surveyed representatives from such partnerships. Their responses provided interesting insights which are analysed in this report.

In 2008 the EU Council of Ministers has officially endorsed the Small Business Act for Europe (SBA), recognizing the central role of the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the EU28 economy and aiming to improve the overall approach to entrepreneurship specific to the SMEs. Since 2008 the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) produces the SME Performance Review. That review incorporates, among others, the SBA country fact sheets whose main purpose is to describe the performance of the SMEs across the EU28 MSs. It uses quantitative indicators that cover the broad range of ten SBA principles: (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.

The Adjusted Research Excellence Index is a composite indicator selected by the European Research Area Council (ERAC) as the headline measure to monitor country performance with respect to ERA Roadmap Priority 1, ‘Effective national research systems’ (European Commission, 2017). It combines four dimensions that characterize effective research systems, in terms of scientific and technological research excellence (the “production” of high-impact publications and valued patents), and the ability of institutes to attract outstanding research grants and participate in researcher exchanges to pave the way for future excellence and develop efficient research capacity. This report describes the methodology used to compute the latest scores for 43 countries (EU Member States and Horizon 2020 Associated Countries) and the EU28 for 4 time points: 2016, 2013, 2011 and 2010. The results show that Switzerland excels in having the most effective national research system, followed by Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Most of the countries show a welcome growth of the composite score over the last period, however it is important to keep in mind that growth is, to a large extent, driven by the overall increase in the value of ERC grants. Country ranks were found to be rather robust, with uncertainty in the modelling choices having only limited impact (3-4 rank positions shifts) on the ranks of the majority of the countries.

El Plan de Actuación Anual es la herramienta de programación a corto plazo de la política de ciencia, tecnología y de innovación, pues facilita la consulta de las convocatorias previstas y permite una mejor planificación por parte de los agentes beneficiarios de las ayudas. Este documento incluye las convocatorias a desarrollar por las diferentes unidades gestoras, con su calendario y financiación previstos.

Nature’s 10 is the journal’s annual list of ten people who mattered in science this year. Their role in science may have had a significant impact on the world, or their position in the world may have had an important impact on science. In ten short profiles we reveal the human stories behind some of the year’s most important discoveries and events.

Research information management (RIM) is the aggregation, curation, and utilization of information about research and is emerging as an area of increasing interest and relevance in many university libraries. RIM systems, also broadly known as current research information systems (CRISs), are gaining interest and attention worldwide for their contribution in dealing with new policies on open science, research funding, and national assessment. In order to examine how research institutions worldwide are applying RIM practices, OCLC Research partnered with euroCRIS to conduct a web-based survey that was administered from October 2017 through February 2018, yielding 381 responses from 44 countries, demonstrating the global nature of research information management activities. A working group comprised of subject matter experts in RIM practices representing both OCLC Research and euroCRIS worked collaboratively to synthesize the data and to write the report. The report details the complexity of RIM practices and examines how commercial and open-source platforms are becoming widely implemented across regions, coexisting with a large number of region-specific solutions as well as locally developed systems. It also considers the urgent need for system-to-system interoperability—with both internal and external systems—and demonstrates how the use of identifiers, standards, and protocols are perceived as most valuable when they can also facilitate interoperability.

This 2018 edition of OECD Research and Development Expenditure in Industry provides statistical data on R&D expenditure broken down by industrial and service sectors. Data are presented in current and constant USD PPP values. Coverage is provided for 31 OECD countries and four non-member economies. The coverage of ANBERD includes multiple sectors, with extended coverage of service sectors according to ISIC Revision 4 classification. This publication is a unique source of detailed internationally-comparable business R&D data, making it an invaluable tool for economic research and analysis.