S&T Policy

ENVIRONMENT

Life goes on

Environmental legislation helps reconnect Atlantic Forest fragments in agricultural regions across Brazil

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Funding

Reaping dividends

Investment in research has increased farm productivity in São Paulo and generated economic returns for the state

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BIBLIOMETRICS

Responsible metrics

Company that determines the impact factor of scientific journals shares the data behind the results

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PUBLICATIONS

A patient’s perspective

Medical journals invite patients to help review scientific articles about their conditions

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MANAGEMENT

A rising platform

Modernization of the Lattes CV database looks to increase confidence in its data and stimulate debate on the platform's potential

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DISSEMINATION

Lab-made art

Artists use tools from science to craft their work

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FUNDING

Tax Law for Cancer

Program receives more tax-exemption funds for treatment than for research into the disease

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Patent War

Patent War

Researchers locked in legal battle for property rights linked to the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 

Closer links with industry

UNICAMP is Brazil’s highest-ranked university for patent applications, and USP for licensing royalties

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DIFFUSION

Cartoon Science

The rising popularity of comic strips in science and research communication

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DIFFUSION

Promise of boycott

Computer scientists vow to boycott new subscription-only artificial intelligence journal

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INNOVATION

Precocious entrepreneurs

OECD study places Brazil among the countries with the greatest number of startups founded by students or recent graduates

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INTERVIEW

Cristiana Simão Seixas: How to measure the value of nature

Biologist who coordinated assessment of biodiversity in the Americas shares strategies to slow down losses

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Management

A strategy for research data

Researchers are being encouraged to better manage and share the data they produce

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INNOVATION

The battle for quality

Companies and universities discuss strategies for improving engineering education

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SCIENTOMETRICS

Sleeping Beauties

To study the scientific process and perfect evaluation systems, researchers analyze innovative papers whose value was recognized only belatedly

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INNOVATION

Reasons to award incentives

The IMF and the OECD suggest that governments provide tax incentives to encourage companies to conduct more research

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Indicators

Annual balance

FAPESP continues its pace of investment according to the institution’s 2016 report

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REMOTE SENSING

Help facing the fire

Brazilian states begin using new tools to analyze data on forest fires

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AFFIRMATIVE ACTION 

Diverse Environment

Universities invest in policies for the protection and inclusion of transgender students and researchers

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COOPERATION

A catalyst for debate

For ten years, the Mobilization for Business Innovation has been guiding corporate strategies and coordinating the dialogue between government, the private sector, and universities

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Bioenergy

On the frontiers of ethanol made from sugarcane

Project outlines scenarios to increase biofuel production in Africa and Latin America

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BIOENERGY

Impact on the market

RenovaBio, a new national biofuel policy, will reward efficient producers and promises to expand supply

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Flight of the billionaires

SpaceX accelerates private sector space race by putting an electric car into orbit

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DATA MANAGEMENT 

Unbalanced Dissemination

Reuse of scientific data is still uncommon, and varies depending on the field of knowledge

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Interview

Eduardo da Motta e Albuquerque: Cross-border knowledge flows

The expansion of international scientific collaborations is forming an innovation ecosystem that knows no borders, says a Brazilian economist

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LEGISLATION

Legal certainty

A new decree outlines measures to lift bureaucratic barriers and boost innovation in companies and universities

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Gender

The search for balance

A study comparing scientific output by women in a range of countries highlights Brazil’s improvement

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INDICATORS

A map of scientific competencies

Study shows where researchers are concentrated and describes the impact of their production in the 15 administrative regions of the state of São Paulo

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Innovation

A worrisome calm

The PINTEC survey found stability in the number of Brazilian companies that innovated between 2012 and 2014 and observed increasing difficulties for industry

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