Notas y recursos sobre gestión de la ciencia y la innovación

Andrés Alba-Pérez

Management of science and innovation

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  • Creativity in programs to foster innovation from Academia

    In the past I have been involved in a few small or medium-sized initiatives to fund research or innovation. Policy makers that design these programmes have to balance the urge to guide the activity towards what they think it’s the Read more

  • All the skills for a successful career in research, or after research.

    The path that postdocs tread is narrow, and the drop is shear and very high. Does this song ring a bell? Early career researchers in most countries live in a competitive environment where you are supposed to look for the Read more

  • Predicting the future

    I like to imagine how the future will be. This is usually about rather short term predictions, like how useful will voice recognition be in the next few years (not very, despite push from industry), or what biomedical emerging field has more chances to explode soon (cell or tissue models for in vitro assays, dedicated post… Read more

  • Technology Readiness Level (TRL) in biomedical development

    The team in Glasgow has started to prepare a proposal for the upcoming NMBP-22-2018 call (a call for research projects under the EU H2020 programme) and we noticed that under scope of the projects in the call description it says that «Activities should start at TRL 3 and achieve TRL 5 at the end of the… Read more

  • Setting up a start-up in the EU

    If you are thinking of setting up a new company anywhere in the EU, specially if it’s innovation based, the European Commission has a very good online resource with information and contacts to help you do it. From guidance on Read more

  • The human dimension of innovation

    Our motivations and interactions within our team shape the pathway that our enterprises follow, and this has become more and more critical for success as our knowledge based economy becomes more and more collaborative. We need the artists in our teams, the designers, psychologists, the storytellers, the dancers! We need ourselves, our minds, to be… Read more