Japanese science ministry expects large funding boost

Britain pledges science funding boost

The British chancellor, Gordon Brown, last month set out spending plans that, if carried out, would lead to the largest sustained increase in science spending for a generation, but many researchers are concerned that such is the pressure on funds, there would be very little money left over for new research. Brown’s ten-year investment framework for science pledged that research and development ...

UK pledge for funding boost

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Foreign funding boost for nursing expertise.

Obama's science boost

From the outset of his bid for the presidency, Barack Obama has promised to make sweeping changes in the areas of energy, science, and climate change; but few could have predicted a year ago how quickly these commitments would be realized and at what scale. By signing the economic stimulus package into law earlier this month, however, the new president has authorized enormous cash infusions int...

Science funding and science policy: Big data as a tool for supporting the research funding process

ÜberResearch pursues a comprehensive approach to big and small data to aid science funders in operations and analysis. We seek to consolidate global award data and funders’ internal data, with a focus on data harmonization, natural language processing and disambiguation. In this article, firstly, I give a definition and some examples of big data. Next, I look at the relevance of big data in sci...