Funding

Funding

FAPESP announces R$990.1 million for new initiatives

FAPESP allocates R$990.1 million to new research-support initiatives

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Funding

Canada launches new innovation agency

Canadian government announces launch of new agency to promote innovation

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DATA

Tax expenditures associated with research, development, and innovation (RDI)

Tax expenditures associated with research, development, and innovation

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INTERVIEW

Helena Nader: Brazilian science still does not reflect the Brazilian people

UNIFESP biomedical scientist and the first woman to preside over the Brazilian Academy of Sciences talks about the importance of affirmative action and highlights education as a priority

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FAPESP – 60 YEARS

FAPESP has an extensive bibliographic collection about its history

Books, articles, reports, and open-access academic papers record and analyze the foundation's history and its contributions to the advancement of science in Brazil

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FAPESP – 60 YEARS

Diversity in science

Brazil remains attractive for foreign postdocs, but applications have declined in recent years

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FAPESP – 60 YEARS

Beyond borders

In its six decades, São Paulo’s FAPESP has helped to strengthen Brazil’s broader science, technology, and innovation ecosystem

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COVER

Crisis in human resource development

Lower numbers of master's and PhD graduates in 2020 due to the pandemic and lower demand for advanced degrees sparks debate about the system that provides future researchers and high-level professionals in Brazil

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DATA

Public investment in education

Public investments in education reached 6.23% of GDP in 2018

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DATA

Women in science

Female presence among FAPESP scholarship recipients

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politics

Boycott of Russian institutions

Western research centers are cutting scientific ties with Russia in response to the country’s invasion of Ukraine

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PUBLIC POLICY

Rewarding Conservation

New study sheds light on impacts from bonus tax transfers to incentivize expansion of municipal protected areas in Brazil

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Financing

More money for science in the USA

The US House of Representatives passed a bill expanding the budgets of research-funding agencies in the country

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Funding

Committed effort

Survey finds investment in cancer research has fallen in Brazil

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Interview

André Tortato Rauen: Research focused on mission

Economist from IPEA suggests bolder investment that tackles society’s greatest challenges in addition to basic science

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Gender

A system imbalance

Gender inequality in distribution of productivity-based grants by the CNPq

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DATA

Refining business statistics

Refining business statistics

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Data

Public R&D funding in São Paulo

A FAPESP survey on R&D activities carried out in São Paulo in 2018 offers a precise distinction between who funds and who conducts R&D in the state, and how much the government contributes at different levels The graphs above show that the business sector conducts the most R&D, but the government sector contributes just as... View Article

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Careers

Time to face the numbers

Economic crisis and high unemployment rate boost the number of FIES debtors

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Higher education

Turbulence on the horizon for postgraduate education

Uncertainties arise as assessment of Brazilian graduate programs goes to court

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Interview

Renato Janine Ribeiro: There is no development without science

The new president of SBPC says Brazil lacks an awareness of the influence of research on economic and social prosperity

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Indicators

Rapid response to an extreme crisis

With funding from FAPESP, São Paulo’s scientific community came together to confront the health emergency, shows 2020 Activities Report

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Data

RISB and the fourth industrial revolution

Industry 4.0 is revolutionizing the means of production through coordinated use of the information generated and managed by production monitoring systems

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Interview

Soraya Smaili: Bringing science closer to society

Soraya Smaili, a former dean at UNIFESP, discusses the goals of a new think tank devoted to developing policy proposals for higher education and science funding

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Academic assessment

New quality metrics

Universities and funding agencies search for more comprehensive metrics to assess researchers

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Data

R&D intensity in national productive structures

Of the various data used to calculate a country’s GDP, the output of different economical sectors is of particular importance

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Development

Innovation enablers

Limited public and private investment in strategic and potentially disruptive technologies threatens competitiveness in Brazilian industry

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Cover

INPE under pressure

Brazil’s most important space research center celebrates its 60th anniversary with a reduced budget, research projects facing uncertain futures, and major challenges ahead

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Funding

ERC president

German geneticist Maria Leptin will be the new president of the European Research Council

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LEGISLATION

Boost for startups

Government passes bill to encourage investment in small innovative companies in Brazil

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