Reflections on the Role of Research Infrastructures in the European Research Area
Reflections on the Role of Research Infrastructures in the European Research Area

Author: Campbell Warden

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 84

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During the past two decades there has been a trend away from large research facilities dedicated to a specific discipline or research area to the development of research infrastructures that are a service facility for a variety of scientific communities. This publication is the proceedings of a conference held to examine the aspects of science policy that relate to infrastructures. It was organised under six themes: the role of infrastructure in research; technological innovation - industrial and socio-eonomic aspects of research infrastructure; international dimension; evaluation and monitoring of access to research infrastructures; infrastructure networking; how to develop a European Research Infrastructure.

Big Science and Research Infrastructures in Europe
Big Science and Research Infrastructures in Europe

Author: Katharina C. Cramer

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2020-08-28

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 183910001X

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This thought-provoking book expands on the notion that Big Science is not the only term to describe and investigate particularly large research projects, scientific collaborations and facilities. It investigates the significant overlap between Big Science and Research Infrastructures (RIs) in a European context since the early twenty-first century. Contributions to this innovative book not only augment the study of Big Science with new perspectives, but also launch the study of RIs as a promising new line of inquiry.

Interim Evaluation of the European Research Infrastructures Including E- Infrastructures in Horizon 2020
Interim Evaluation of the European Research Infrastructures Including E- Infrastructures in Horizon 2020

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Published: 2017

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9789279741234

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Research infrastructures are facilities, resources and services that are used by the research communities to conduct research and foster innovation in their fields. They may be used beyond research, e.g. for education or public services. The H2020 RI programme sets out to use the accumulated talent and resources of science capability across the EU to develop new advanced research infrastructures, widen the access to existing ones, network and interoperate national ones of wider interest and work together with third countries on global infrastructures and to address global problems. To do this H2020 RI also develops policy, provides training, and fosters workshops, studies and meetings to hone ideas and find the best ways of delivering and running infrastructures effectively. The programme title is H2020 European research infrastructures (including einfrastructures) because the programme includes infrastructure to provide the scientific community with access to advanced and networked computing and many other services. These in turn support the rapidly-growing number of data-driven research infrastructures which are enabling the sharing and comparative study of information and research results across Europe and between disciplines. The computing and data infrastructures are together forming the basis of the European Digital Open Market, a key element in plans to build prosperity, jobs and well-being across Europe. Most of H2020 RI is managed by DG RTD. The e-Infrastructures component is managed by DG CNECT, where it sits alongside officials responsible for the wider aspects of the digital economy, and the two teams work closely together. H2020 RI is a direct successor to previous Framework programmes and represents the latest component of a long-term effort to realise an effective and developing research infrastructure provision for Europe. The Commission is helped in doing this by two groups: ESFRI (European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures) and e-IRG (e- Infrastructures Reflection Group). These groups play a major role in connecting the programme to the scientific communities and, in the case of ESFRI, to Research Ministers in member states.

European Science and Technology Policy
European Science and Technology Policy

Author: Henri Delanghe

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 1849803285

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This title is about the most important concept underpinning current European Union research policy. It focuses on the notion of the European Research Area, a European 'internal market' for research, whose achievement will become the main objective of EU research policy once the Lisbon Treaty enters into force.

A New Deal for an Effective European Research Policy
A New Deal for an Effective European Research Policy

Author: Ugur Muldur

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-05-06

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 140205551X

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This book argues that a New Deal for research in Europe is needed. This New Deal would involve the mobilisation of policy actors across all levels-–regional, national and European-–and their commitment to develop a more effective research system based on actions where they have the greatest impact. The book presents, from a viewpoint inside the European Commission, the nuts and bolts of how EU research policy is actually designed. It also provides a comprehensive analysis, on the basis of factual evidence, not only of the positive impacts of European research, but of the various criticisms that have been made of the Framework Programme.

Earth Observation Open Science and Innovation
Earth Observation Open Science and Innovation

Author: Christoph Aubrecht

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Published: 2020-10-08

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9781013269363

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Over the past decades, rapid developments in digital and sensing technologies, such as the Cloud, Web and Internet of Things, have dramatically changed the way we live and work. The digital transformation is revolutionizing our ability to monitor our planet and transforming the way we access, process and exploit Earth Observation data from satellites.This book reviews these megatrends and their implications for the Earth Observation community as well as the wider data economy. It provides insight into new paradigms of Open Science and Innovation applied to space data, which are characterized by openness, access to large volume of complex data, wide availability of new community tools, new techniques for big data analytics such as Artificial Intelligence, unprecedented level of computing power, and new types of collaboration among researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs and citizen scientists. In addition, this book aims to provide readers with some reflections on the future of Earth Observation, highlighting through a series of use cases not just the new opportunities created by the New Space revolution, but also the new challenges that must be addressed in order to make the most of the large volume of complex and diverse data delivered by the new generation of satellites. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Innovation and Business Partnering in Japan, Europe and the United States
Innovation and Business Partnering in Japan, Europe and the United States

Author: Ruth Taplin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-10-19

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1134142420

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Innovation studies and partnering/collaborative alliances are rapidly growing areas of interest. Originally combining the two areas, this book examines the role of business partnering as a pathway to innovation for small and medium enterprises – SMEs. This text outlines global and regional trends, focusing in particular on the role of Poland and Eastern Europe as an emerging region for new innovative ideas, how innovation is promoted in the United States, and how it is facilitated in Japan. It assesses the reasons why American SMEs are significantly ahead of their European counterparts in the fields of research and development investment and innovation, and demonstrates how business partnering can assist in increasing research and development investment, profit, finding new suppliers and aiding growth. In addition, the book shows how business partners can cut the costs of doing research for innovation and analyzes the threat that poorly constructed and over-burdensome regulation and bureaucracy pose to innovation. This book is a timely contribution to the literature on both innovation and business partnering in Japan, Europe and the United States.