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China's absorptive State: research, innovation and the prospects for China-UK collaboration
China's innovation system is advancing so rapidly in multiple directions that the UK needs to develop a more ambitious and tailored strategy, able to maximise opportunities and minimise risks across the diversity of its innovation links to China. For the UK, the choice is not whether to engage more deeply with the Chinese system, but how.
This report analyses the policies, prospects and dilemmas for Chinese research and innovation over the next decade. It is designed to inform a more strategic approach to supporting China-UK collaboration
EASTWEB: building an integrated leading Euro-Asian higher education and research community in the field of the Semantic WEB
Based on the experience of the EC funded project EASTWEB, a project involving Universities from Italy (main partner), Austria, Ireland, Poland, China, India and Thailand, we describe a set of on going and planned collaboration activities. We highlight what we see the major advantages but also the difficulties in carrying out such a program
Defence science and innovation: an affordable strategic advantage
Overview: Australia’s neighbours in the Asia–Pacific are building high-quality science, technology, engineering and mathematics research capacities and infrastructure. As a consequence, Australia’s technological advantage in the defence domain is eroding. To recover that advantage, our policy should be to make the most of the knowledge, capability and capacity in Australia’s civilian science and innovation sector.
This special report analyses current and prospective Australian science, industry and defence science and innovation policy
HiTrust: building cross-organizational trust relationship based on a hybrid negotiation tree
Small-world phenomena have been observed in existing peer-to-peer (P2P) networks which has proved useful in the design of P2P file-sharing systems. Most studies of constructing small world behaviours on P2P are based on the concept of clustering peer nodes into groups, communities, or clusters. However, managing additional multilayer topology increases maintenance overhead, especially in highly dynamic environments. In this paper, we present Social-like P2P systems (Social-P2Ps) for object discovery by self-managing P2P topology with human tactics in social networks. In Social-P2Ps, queries are routed intelligently even with limited cached knowledge and node connections. Unlike community-based P2P file-sharing systems, we do not intend to create and maintain peer groups or communities consciously. In contrast, each node connects to other peer nodes with the same interests spontaneously by the result of daily searches
Report on the Twelfth United Nations/European Space Agency Workshop on Basic Space Science
Pursuant to recommendations of the United Nations Conference on the
Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNISPACE III) and deliberations
of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS),
annual UN/European Space Agency workshops on basic space science have been held
around the world since 1991. These workshops contributed to the development of
astrophysics and space science, particularly in developing nations. Following a
process of prioritization, the workshops identified the following elements as
particularly important for international cooperation in the field: (i)
operation of astronomical telescope facilities implementing TRIPOD, (ii)
virtual observatories, (iii) astrophysical data systems, (iv) concurrent design
capabilities for the development of international space missions, and (v)
theoretical astrophysics such as applications of nonextensive statistical
mechanics. Beginning in 2005, the workshops focus on preparations for the
International Heliophysical Year 2007 (IHY2007). The workshops continue to
facilitate the establishment of astronomical telescope facilities as pursued by
Japan and the development of low-cost, ground-based, world-wide instrument
arrays as lead by the IHY secretariat.Comment: PDF, 9 page
Bioinformatics and the politics of innovation in the life sciences: Science and the state in the United Kingdom, China, and India
The governments of China, India, and the United Kingdom are unanimous in their belief that bioinformatics should supply the link between basic life sciences research and its translation into health benefits for the population and the economy. Yet at the same time, as ambitious states vying for position in the future global bioeconomy they differ considerably in the strategies adopted in pursuit of this goal. At the heart of these differences lies the interaction between epistemic change within the scientific community itself and the apparatus of the state. Drawing on desk-based research and thirty-two interviews with scientists and policy makers in the three countries, this article analyzes the politics that shape this interaction. From this analysis emerges an understanding of the variable capacities of different kinds of states and political systems to work with science in harnessing the potential of new epistemic territories in global life sciences innovation
Self-Evaluation Applied Mathematics 2003-2008 University of Twente
This report contains the self-study for the research assessment of the Department of Applied Mathematics (AM) of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS) at the University of Twente (UT). The report provides the information for the Research Assessment Committee for Applied Mathematics, dealing with mathematical sciences at the three universities of technology in the Netherlands. It describes the state of affairs pertaining to the period 1 January 2003 to 31 December 2008
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