El Directorio anual de APTE es una publicación que edita la Asociación de Parques Científicos y Tecnológicos de España y que recoge información útil sobre todos los parques científicos y tecnológicos miembros de APTE; información de contacto, galerías de fotos, información técnica y servicios, entidades promotoras, enlaces a redes sociales, y mucho más.

El pasado 19 de junio, el Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades y la Oficina Europea de FECYT, celebraron una Jornada Informativa Nacional para la difusión del Programa de Cooperación Europea en Ciencia y Tecnología “COST”. El objetivo de la jornada fue promover la participación de investigadores españoles en el Programa COST, explicar las novedades del mismo, y dar a conocer las características y ventajas de participar en Acciones COST.

This report provides insights on 100 emerging developments that may exert a strong impact on global value creation and offer important solutions to societal needs.We identified this set of emerging developments through a carefully designed procedure that combined machine learning algorithms and human evaluation. After successive waves of selection and refinement, the resulting 100 emerging topics were subjected to several assessment procedures, including expert consultation and analysis of related patents and publications.Having analysed the potential importance of each of these innovations for Europe, their current maturity and the relative strength of Europe in related R&D, we can make some general policy recommendations that follow.

Table of radical innovation breakthroughs

What do you think are the most pressing challenges that EU-funded research and innovation should tackle? What are the most important impacts – scientific, technological, economic, societal – that EU-funded research and innovation should target? Now you can share your views with the European Commission. The Commission is preparing the implementation of Horizon Europe, the next and most ambitious EU research and innovation programme (2021-2027) with a proposed budget of €100 billion, in an intensive co-design process. The process will help shape European research and innovation investments in the coming years. As part of the process, the Commission has launched an online consultation.

What if blockchain revolutionised voting? What if your emotions were tracked to spy on you? And what if we genetically engineered an entire species? Science and policy are intricately connected. Via monthly 'What if' publications, the Scientific Foresight Unit (STOA; part of the European Parliamentary Research Service) draws Members of the European Parliament's attention to new scientific and technological developments relevant for policy-making.

The ERC-funded projects presented in this brochure illustrate the wide and diverse areas of research of relevance to aerospace. The projects featured address bird and formation flight, combustion thermoacoustic instabilities, material mechanics across spatial and time scales, clusters of nano and picosatellites (cubesats), space orbit perturbations and aerospace communications.

‘Microbiome’ is a term used to describe the community of microorganisms and their genetic information that inhabit a confined environmental niche, such as a host organism, soil or the ocean. The microbiome composition varies substantially depending on the environmental niche and can include different bacteria, archaea, fungi and viruses. Research has shown that these communities of microbes play crucial roles in host physiology and development, ecology and evolution.

"¿Por qué tan pocas?: Tecnólogas y científicas a la luz" visibiliza el papel de las mujeres españolas en el campo de la tecnología y la ciencia a través de materiales audiovisuales orientados a crear nuevos referentes femeninos en este ámbito para las niñas, adolescentes y jóvenes (también entre niños, adolescentes y jóvenes varones).

El proyecto consta de un largometraje documental en el que se visibiliza a mujeres que se dedican a la ciencia y la tecnología en la actualidad, desde las más veteranas que han abierto camino hasta las más jóvenes.

Paralelamente se han elaborado 20 píldoras audiovisuales con historias individuales de cada una de las científicas y tecnólogas y/o con actividades relevantes que las mujeres realizan en ese área, con el fin de que las niñas, adolescentes y jóvenes accedan a modelos adecuados para su aprendizaje, desarrollo intelectual y posteriores intereses profesionales en igualdad y para construir una nueva cultura científica en la que las mujeres adquieran protagonismo.

This report investigates the gender gap in the funding of innovative start-ups across OECD and BRICS countries using a detailed micro-dataset on start-ups and their founders. Results from empirical analysis show that start-ups with at least one woman in the team of founders are less likely to receive funding by 5-10%. When such start-ups do receive funding, they receive an amount lower by a third compared to start-ups created by male founders. Accounting for founders’ characteristics (their educational background and past professional experience) reduces the gap in likelihood to receive funding, but not the gap in funding amounts. A key conclusion is that addressing the gender gap will require a holistic approach, including through – but not restricted to – the education system. The paper concludes by a discussion of potential mechanisms that could explain the observed gap, presents policy options, and proposes an agenda for future research.

Interdisciplinarity is increasingly used to tackle complex scientific questions and address large societal challenges. At the same time, the evaluation of interdisciplinary research proposals poses a set of problems, ranging from missing common standards and criteria to shortages of peer reviewers with experience in evaluating interdisciplinary research. At its third Symposium, hosted in Brussels on 21 November 2018, Science Europe and its Scientific Advisory Committee brought together researchers and other experts experienced in interdisciplinarity with high-level representatives from Science Europe’s Member Organisations, who fund and perform such research.

This release contains rankings of universities in 54 subjects across Natural Sciences, Engineering, Life Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Social Sciences. In total, more than 4000 universities were ranked.

The Times Higher Education Young University Rankings list the world’s best universities that are 50 years old or younger. The 2019 ranking includes 351 universities, up from 250 in 2018. The table is based on the same 13 performance indicators as the flagship THE World University Rankings, but the weightings have been adjusted to give less weight to reputation.