We investigate the role of public funding in the rapid ascent of Chinese science by examining the impact of a major upgrade of a funding program of China's National Natural Science Foundation in 2011. Using research grant level data and a difference-in-differences estimator, we found that the...

Where can one systematically find research ideas? I propose a scheme to classify and broadly generalize the sources of inspiration for research topics, with emphasis on corporate finance. In the process, I propose 100 new research topics awaiting the brave and persistent

Europe has never been so peacefully consolidated or prosperous, yet it is also vulnerable to threats such as terrorism, organised crime and natural disasters. Making Europe more secure and resilient for its citizens and critical infrastructures, while strengthening its SMEs and industrial...

This case study presents Finnish Open Science and Research Initiative (ATT) for the years 2014-2017. Initiated by the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture with an aim of making Finland one of the leading countries in open science and research by the year 2017, the initiative was carried out...

Europe's aging transport infrastructure needs effective and proactive maintenance in order to continue its safe operation during the entire life cycle. This report focuses on research and innovation (R&I) in bridge maintenance, inspection and monitoring in Europe in the last quarter of a...

This case study reports activities performed by Research Data Alliance (RDA), an international grassroots organisation that promotes international collaboration and global sharing mechanisms to remove social and technical barriers to research data sharing and reuse. Drivers, impacts and barriers...

The Directorate-General for Research & Innovation (DG RTD) of the European Commission regularly carries out policy-oriented in-house analyses. This paper provides background information and analysis to stimulate a policy debate on two key policy issues for which important evolutions have been...

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of research and innovation in alternative fuels in selected European Union (EU) funded projects from 2007 onwards. It identifies relevant researched technologies by fuel type and their phase of development. The results show that liquefied petroleum...

The Research, Innovation and Science Expert (RISE) Group published a report on 'Europe's future: open innovation, open science and open to the world' in May 2017. Building on this work, the RISE and ESIR expert groups met with independent think tanks in the field of research and innovation from...