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Scientists made their voices heard at the highest levels in Europe today. A delegation led by two Nobel laureates held sequential meetings with the European Union's three presidents—European Parliament President Martin Schulz, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, and European Commission President José Manuel Barroso—to lobby them to spare research funding from looming cuts in the European Union's budget. (...) - ScienceInsider, by Gretchen Vogel, 15 November 2012
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Report calls for stable funding and industry collaborations.
Eric Isaacs got some high-level validation last week. The director of Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, Illinois, Isaacs had enlisted two industrial giants — Dow Chemical and Johnson Controls — to help with the basic research for a lithium–air battery that could one day match the energy density of petrol. “You have to have everyone working together very early on,” he says. (...) - by Eric Hand, Nature News, 04 December 2012
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A number of Nobel prize holders have failed to win a European Research Council (ERC) grant because their project proposals were not good enough, ERC President Helga Nowotny (pictured) told a conference held in Barcelona last week to mark the council’s five years of operation.
The title of the conference, which took place on 5 November at the University of Pampeu Fabra, was “Enhancing the Attractiveness of European Universities as a Destination for World-Class Research”.
Nowotny (pictured) remarked that she would have added the subtitle “In times of austerity”. (...) - University World News, by
Jan Petter Myklebust, 11 November 2012, Issue No:247
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Côte d'Ivoire has published a policy document for scientific research that outlines plans for invigorating national research for development. (...) - SciDev.Net
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Recent interventions by high-profile scientists have reignited the debate about whether we spend enough on fundamental research in the UK. Such debates frequently generate more heat than light and may be obscuring the bigger picture (...) - The Guardian, by Kieron Flanagan, 27/02/2013
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QB3 held up as example of how to capitalize on research.
Universities should provide scientists with mentorship, business-support services and private-sector connections to help them exploit the commercial potential of their research discoveries, says a study published on 24 October (K. D. Harrison et al. Sci. Transl. Med. 4, 157fs37; 2012). The study cites the 'Garage Network' at the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) as an example of success. The QB3 network is a business incubator that supports entrepreneurs at the University of California's San Francisco, Berkeley and Santa Cruz campuses. (...) Naturejobs -
Nature 491,291(2012), 07 November 2012
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- Un centre de formation et de R&D Aéro Maghreb lancé
- Un institut supérieur des sciences de la santé en cours
- La Maison des sciences de l’Homme opérationnelle
(...) - Leconomiste.com 07/11/2012
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Argentina implementará un programa de innovación tecnológica y formación de capital humano gracias a un préstamo de US$200 millones del BID. - SciDev.Net
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