Notas y recursos sobre gestión de la ciencia y la innovación

Andrés Alba-Pérez

Management of science and innovation

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  • Where did all the nanomedicine go?

    Where did all the nanomedicine go?

    Well, it didn’t go anywhere, as in it didn’t disappear, but it seems that progressively for the last few years it has been not been calling itself «nano» that much anymore. Last month we submitted a proposal to the last Euronanomed call, a ERA-NET type of platform under H2020 that has been running for twelve… Read more

  • How to become a successful academic

    How to become a successful academic

    Several times already during this last month I’ve seen myself in the troublesome situation of giving advice about how to become a successful academic. I’m not an academic myself so one idea that I try to gently put forward is that one way to be a successful academic is to move out. It’s an option… Read more

  • An «open space» meeting, but online

    Open space meetings are an incredibly potent tool to discuss almost anything in a group setting, and don’t need a lot of preparation. For our purposes, they are a simple and effective way to build a project proposal with a solid foundation on goals, checking with stakeholders, actually addressing the correct challenges and questions that… Read more

  • A great evaluation report

    In a recent European H2020 call our lab has been awarded a very exciting and pioneering grant. The evaluation summary report was quite long and with a lot of feedback on what we did right to get the proposal approved. I believe this can be a great resource for other teams building and writing similar… Read more

  • Guía de actividades en casa para estudiantes de doctorado y otros investigadores

    Guía de actividades en casa para estudiantes de doctorado y otros investigadores

    Ahora que es complicado recoger datos experimentales, algunas recomendaciones sobre cómo organizarse y qué actividades hacer. Adaptado de un hilo de twitter de la Dra Zoë Ayres, de este artículo en Science, y de un poco de experiencia personal. Empieza el día con una rutina de planificación. No todas las personas y los hogares son iguales, pero… Read more

  • Twitter, una herramienta para la ciencia. ¿Dónde empezar, hacia dónde ir?

    Twitter, una herramienta para la ciencia. ¿Dónde empezar, hacia dónde ir?

    Twitter ha evolucionado en su uso como herramienta social rápidamente en pocos años. Aunque para muchos académicos sigue siendo casi desconocido, hay un número creciente de investigadores que lo usan en el ámbito profesional. Nuestro perfil puede estar centrado en leer información que nos interese y mantenernos al tanto de novedades en nuestro campo, en… Read more