Funding
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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Gender
A system imbalance
Gender inequality in distribution of productivity-based grants by the CNPq
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
Higher education
Turbulence on the horizon for postgraduate education
Uncertainties arise as assessment of Brazilian graduate programs goes to court
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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Academic assessment
New quality metrics
Universities and funding agencies search for more comprehensive metrics to assess researchers
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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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
Funding
Direct funding to Africa
In April, African health experts published an open letter in the journal Nature Medicine, addressed to international funders of studies on health problems in Africa
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Funding
More money for science in the USA
US President Joe Biden presented the country’s 2022 budget in April
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Funding
A sigh of relief
New legislation to reduce the use of animals in scientific research in Brazil
COVID-19
Understand the long-term effects
The US NIH announced a plan to invest US$1.15 billion over the next four years into research on the long-term effects of COVID-19
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