Japan 'loses' new funds for research infrastructure

A new criterion for allocating research funds : ‘ impact per dollar ’

NSF (USA) requires proposals to include activities addressing the ‘broader impacts’ of a project. Similarly, starting in 2013, the Higher Education Funding Council for England will require applicants to articulate the societal and economic benefits of their research. The criteria are so broad (by definition!) and vague that applicants do not know what to include, and evaluators have a difficult...

European Union Funds at Public Universities in the Czech Republic – Example of Promoting Human Resources for New Research Infrastructure

The paper focuses on the implementation phase of the strategy of the European Union and the national strategy of the Czech Republic to promote academic and research staff with the potential to produce results that provide innovation useful for economic growth. It deals with the use of financial resources of the Operational Program Education for Competitiveness at the University of West Bohemia ...

Proposal for Funds for Independent Student Research

Electronic Educational and Research Services as Infrastructure for the E- Government: Role of

Introduction: Websites serve as an initial step toward an e- government adoption which facilitates delivery of online services to customers. The existing study intended to investigate the role of university website to render educational and research services based on e- government maturity model in Iranian universities. Methods: This descriptive and cross- sectional study was conducted through...

Establishment of the Spatial Information Infrastructure for the Scientific and Research Park in Kyushu University, Japan

The distributed spatial information system has been proposed as one of infrastructures for the development as a scientific research park in Kyushu University, Japan. The system is based on an autonomously-distributed database model with the geographical information system (GIS) technology. The GIS node, which is an important element of the system, is composed of spatial data storage, Web-based ...