8th August 2013 Toronto, Canada
Canadian science news: 29 July-4 August 2013
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Global Science and Innovation Network
A blog showcasing the work of the Global UK Science and Innovation Network, approximately 90 officers in over 30 countries and territories around the world
7th August 2013 New Delhi, India
UK-India Collaboration – Focus: role of big business and academic R&D collaboration to support in international innovation
Continuing our series of guest blogs from our visitors, here’s a blog from Dr Nick Rousseau, Head of EU and International Innovation Policy within the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills , UK about his visit to India few weeks ago.. My role in the UK Government’s Innovation Directorate is to look at how we […]
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1st August 2013 Ottawa, Canada
Challenges facing Universities in a Global Market: Guest blog by Professor Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor of Warwick University
Higher education is increasingly being noticed as a lucrative and growing business sector, especially where attracting international students is concerned. This provides many opportunities for forward looking universities and also many challenges. Professor Nigel Thrift*, Vice-Chancellor of Warwick University, attended a summit in Ottawa, Canada to discuss how universities worldwide are adapting to the swiftly […]
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31st July 2013 Ottawa, Canada
UK releases International Education Strategy
On Monday, July 29th the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) released its International Education Strategy. This strategy outlines how the UK will work with businesses, schools and universities to develop the economic opportunities of the growing education sector. Strategy highlights include: Welcoming international students: the strategy explains that there is no cap on the […]
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30th July 2013 Ottawa, Canada
Canadian High Performance Computing and Big Data Capabilities
National infrastructure for supercomputing-powered research High performance computing (HPC) has become an indispensable and enabling technology across all research fields. Some fields have a long history with computing such as computer science, astrophysics, weather (climate modeling) and engineering. In Canada, researchers are managing and analyzing immensely large and complex data sets from sources such as […]
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30th July 2013 New Delhi, India
Innovation is GREAT round up
At the UK-India Summit in February this year our Prime Ministers issued a declaration in which they “welcomed the rapid expansion of India-UK research and development cooperation, which is helping to generate and develop high quality, high impact research partnerships leading to new knowledge creation”. But they also stated there was “considerable potential for expanding […]
29th July 2013 Los Angeles, USA
Crowdsourcing Science: Becoming Citizen Scientists
While studying international affairs in graduate school at Penn State, I found others like me who wanted to “save the world.” I’m not talking about becoming a super hero in the hottest comic book flying off the shelves, but we were in school to develop skills that would help put us in a position to […]
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29th July 2013 Toronto, Canada
Canadian science news: 22-28 July 2013
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26th July 2013 New Delhi, India
Are you ready for the Rolls-Royce India Open Innovation Challenge?
Chesbrough, who coined the term “Open Innovation” describes in his book “Open Innovation: the New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology” how companies have shifted from so-called closed innovation processes towards a more open way of innovating. Open Innovation can be described as combining internal and external ideas as well as internal and external […]
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23rd July 2013 Ottawa, Canada
They’re back! The 2013 Collaboration Development Awards!
The Science and Innovation team in Canada is very happy to announce the launch of this year’s Collaboration Development Awards …
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