Projects: KNAW is involved in a number of projects aimed at facilitating access to research output.
The Vicepresidency of Research has issued in 2011 a resolution requiring research output to be deposited in open access repositories.
This problem is even more pressing now that many cash-strapped universities are making IP a key focus of efforts to more effectively leverage their research output.
FORBES: Intellectual Property Awareness At Universities: Why Ignorance Is Not Bliss
On October 4th Quacquarelli Symonds, an education consultancy, published the first regional ranking of Latin American universities, combining measures of reputation, research output, academics' qualifications and staff-student ratios.
If we leave the GFC aside there has been a systematic reduction in relative research and development output over the last 15 years.
FORBES: The locus of innovation has shifted away from the U.S.
Global solar electric sales grew 62% last year to 3.8 gigawatts (measured by peak output), according to market research firm Strategies Unlimited.
The new facility is its largest center for cookie research and development in Asia, and its output will allow Kraft to create new product platforms tailored to suit local tastes.
The latest estimate from the National Institute for Economic and Social Research, released on 7 September, suggested that output grew by 0.2% in the three months ending in August.
In England there are 32, 482 Super Output Areas (SOA) on which the research is based.
Lawyers have succeeded in creating a cloud of suspicion around most medical research by suggesting that the mere whiff of industry financing fatally taints the entire output.
FORBES: Lawyer Financing: A Conflict They'd Sue Other Professionals Over
Platinum is likely approaching the so-called marginal cost of production, which can trigger output cuts in any commodity, said David Wilson, director of metals research at Societe Generale.
FORBES: Analysts: Too Soon For Platinum Tumble To Hurt Output, But 'Something...To Keep An Eye On'
One major bank, Barclays Capital, put out a research report this week offering a specific estimate, saying it looks for a decline in 2011 global output by 300, 000 metric tons, or 1.9%, to 15.8 million tons.
FORBES: Analysts Look For Decline In 2011 Global Copper-Mine Production
Distrust of the GDP numbers has prompted Capital Economics, a research firm based in London, to create its own proxy of economic activity, which includes electricity output, domestic freight volumes, cargo traffic at ports, passenger transport and floor area under construction.
The usefulness of this research lies in its attempt to understand the trade-offs between work hours, employment, productivity, output and wages.
Its food output will fall by a fifth over the next four decades, reckons the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington.
ECONOMIST: Food aid for Africa: When feeding the hungry is political | The
The deals doubled Amgen's research staff to 4, 000, and the firm has worked to sharpen its focus and lift its output of testable drugs.
应用推荐