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Establish Policy Ecosystem That Supports Technological Innovation And Leads Construction Of Modern Industrial System, Cheng Zhou, Xiaoyi Peng, Wen Xie, Chidong Zhang, Yuhe Qiu, Fan Wu

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

To harness the leading role of science and technology innovation and accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system, it is necessary to establish an innovation policy ecosystem that coordinates science and technology, education, economics, and social policies. Compared with this demand, China’s current science and technology innovation policy still needs to be further improved in terms of policy horizontal and vertical coordination, industrial technology research organization mechanism, innovative enterprise subjectivity, industry-university-research cooperation innovation incentives, and resource allocation marketability. In response to these issues, five suggestions are put forward, namely, (1) set up an innovation policy coordination and review agency …

Theories, Status Quo, And Suggestions On Scientific And Technological Innovation As Driver Of Developing Emerging Industries, Xiaoyan Zhang

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

The emerging industry is the key to fostering new growth drivers and developing new advantages. It is also an essential guarantee to reinforce the resilience and security of China’s industrial chain and supply chain, and seize the initiative of future development. This study, based on the theoretical foundation and practical needs of “scientific and technological innovation as the driver of developing emerging industries”, summarizes the typical practices of innovation and development of emerging industries in countries including the United States, Japan, and Singapore. In addition, the study identifies the difficulties faced by China in the developing emerging industries, and raises …

Empowering Traditional Industries With Digital Intelligence For Transformation And Upgrading, Jiyuan Zang, Huanyong Ji, Qingxue Huang

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Traditional industries are the basic support and driving force for the high-quality development of the economy. Digital intelligence is an important lever for traditional industries to achieve the transformation of old and new kinetic energy and the leapfrogging of the global value chain. This study firstly deconstructs the rich connotations of digital intelligence from the perspectives of digitalization, networkization, and intelligentization. Secondly, it analyzes the transformation mechanism and various pathways through which digital intelligence impacts traditional industries. Thirdly, it analyzes the barriers faced by traditional industries in the process of adopting digital intelligence technologies. Finally, this study puts forward four …

Changing Contours Of Policy Communications In India, Abhishek Ranjan, Siddhartha Nath

Bulletin of Monetary Economics and Banking

Using the keyword frequencies in the headlines of press releases issued by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, this article quantifies the shifting focus of India's public policy communications. Our analysis suggests that in the aftermath of the 2008–09 Global Financial Crisis, India's public policy communications shifted from international trade to innovation and competitiveness, while the emphasis on large infrastructure development, employment, investment, and policy incentives remained. A similar analysis using newspaper headlines from India's three leading newspapers and Google search intensity using data from Google Trends indicates that the discussion about international trade and the institutions that promote it …

Learning From “Nature-Based Solutions” To Promote Optimal Management Of Integrated Ecological Conservation And Restoration In Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, Jun Wang, Bojie Fu, Xiao Zhang, Yanxu Liu, Wenwu Zhao

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

The Qinghai-Xizang Plateau plays an important role as an ecological security barrier for China and the world, where the ecological environment has generally improved in recent years. Nevertheless, the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau still faces management challenges in dealing with the three relationships, namely, key problems and coordinated governance, natural recovery and artificial restoration, and high-quality development and high-level protection. This study proposes the application of “Nature-based Solutions” for adaptive management, including the implementation of ecological protection and restoration planning based on the “three-scale framework”, the ecological protection and restoration projects adaptation management under climate change and human disturbance based on quantitative …

Innovation And New Quality Productivity, Yongnian Zheng, Lanmeng Xu

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

China is in a critical period of promoting high-quality development and advancing Chinese modernization. This paper attempts to clarify the relationship between innovation and new-quality productivity and provide a potential development direction for China to lead a modernized industrial system by developing new-quality productivity through innovation. The study proposes that the development of new quality productivity through innovation requires serious consideration from three dimensions. First, it is important to figure out where new technologies come from. Second, it is essential to investigate where new industries come from. Third, a feasible solution has to be formulated based on China’s reality. The …

Analysis Of Demand And Recycling Potential Of Lithium, Cobalt, And Nickel Under Energy Transition Emdash From Perspective Of Electric Vehicles, Xiong Ying, Shouyang Wang, Yuyao Yang

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

With the rapid growth of demand for lithium, cobalt, and nickel, China, the United States, and the European Union have classified them as critical minerals. This study investigates the rise of China’s and the global electric vehicle industry in relation to the demand for lithium, cobalt, and nickel, forecasts the potential for recycling these metals, and evaluates the challenges to resource security of these metals faced by China. The findings underscore the necessity of enhancing international collaboration in mineral extraction abroad and enhancing capabilities to safeguard overseas assets and equity. The study advocates for expediting the establishment of an electric …

Innovation Path At Institute For Protein Design Of Washington University And Its Enlightenment For Construction Of New Life Sciences R&D Institutions, Runzhou Zhao, Ming Ni, Yunzhi Fa, Xiaochen Bo, Jian Jiao

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

The Institute for Protein Design (IPD) at the University of Washington is a pioneering local and state-supported non-profit scientific research institution. Since its establishment in 2012, IPD has seized the opportunity of AI for Science and open science, and continuously enhanced its capabilities of fundamental innovations, breakthrough technologies, and industrial impact. We summarized five factors contributing to IPD’s development, including focusing on the cutting-edge issues of basic scientific research to gain a first-mover advantage and then further expand, integrating AI-enhanced digital tools and solid experimental validations, facilitating the integrated development of innovation and industrial chains, giving full play to the …

Suggestions For Promoting Green Science And Technology Finance In China Under New Development Pattern, Wei Zhang, Xuemeng Liu

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

The new development pattern poses dual challenges to China’s existing financial system. In order to meet the challenges, the financial system needs to vigorously promote the development of green technology finance. To fulfill this, it is necessary to promote the system linkage and digitization of green technology finance, as well as to optimize the product structure of green technology finance. To promote the systematic linkage of green technology finance, it is necessary to promote the linkage development between direct and indirect financing methods of green technology, as well as the linkage development among the financial market of green technology, industrial …

Policy And Practice Progress Of Stem Education For Women Abroad, Lingli Li, Hua Yang, Li Xie

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

In order to narrow the gender gap in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) field, many countries have formulated relevant policy measures.This study summaries policy documents, plans and projects of women’s STEM education in different countries, and conducts text content analysis from three aspects, i.e., policy makers, policy elements, and policy implementation and evaluation. Results show that there are three types of policy makers, and each has their own focus. In terms of policy elements, it emphasizes that STEM education for female students in the education stage, as well as the attention to content such as social norms and …

Policy Overview (June, 2024)

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

No abstract provided.

Insights On Strategy And Approach For China To Construct A Modern Integrated Circuits Industrial System, Ximing Yin, Beibei Zhang, Tailun Chen, Jiang Yu, Jin Chen

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

The integrated circuit (IC) industry is highly complex and systematic, and its key core technology breakthroughs are highly dependent on the support of systematic capabilities. The West especially the United States has accelerated the promotion of the “small-yard, high-fence” strategy, the “New Washington Consensus”, the “de-risking”, and other systematic policies to curb China’s rise. China’s IC industry chain is facing extreme risks such as rupture or blockage. Meanwhile, facing the new mission and requirements of Chinese modernization and new-quality productivity, China needs to accelerate the modernization of the IC industry with new development paradigms, new strategies, and new approaches. Based …

Deep Integration Of Technological Innovation And Industrial Innovation In Modern Industrial System: Inspiration From Global New Generation Lithography Systems, Jiang Yu, Feng Chen, Yue Guo

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Utilizing technological innovation to lead the construction of a modern industrial system is a strategic choice for seizing the opportunities of the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation. It is also a necessary step for winning the strategic initiative towards high-level self-reliance and self-improvement. Technological innovation is the intrinsic driving force behind industrial innovation, and industrial innovation is the value embodiment of technological innovation. The deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation is the key to constructing and improving a modern industrial system. Taking the global extreme ultra-violet (EUV) lithography system as an example, based on the …

Constructing Problemology That Is Symmetrical To Methodology—Taking Computer Science As An Example, Yuhang Liu, Yunquan Zhang

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Institutionalized scientific research encourages free exploration while emphasizing the organization and coordination of research activities. Nevertheless, overcoming dispersion and repetition in the research process is an urgent problem to be addressed. Taking computer science as an example, to implement the problem-oriented concept, this study proposes constructing problemology that is symmetrical to methodology. Methodology is the important manifestation of scientific and technological achievements, and symmetrically, problemology is needed by the scientific research community. The problematique is a crucial component of problemology, representing the level of understanding of problems within the scientific research community. Through problematique as a medium, it connects, bridges, …

Strategic Study On Leading Construction Of Modern Agricultural System By Technology Innovation, Yan Yan, Xurong Mei, Xiudong Wang

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Technology innovation is the fundamental solution to build a modern agricultural system, and it is also an important support for building the large base, large enterprise, and large industry of modern agriculture and achieving the modernization of material equipment, technology, management, agricultural informatization, and sustainable resource utilization of agriculture. This paper explains the scientific concepts and logical relationships of the agricultural production system, industrial system and management system, which are the main components of a modern agricultural system. It emphasizes that ensuring food security, promoting industrial integration and upgrading, and cultivating leading enterprises are current key tasks. Nevertheless, from the …

Changshu National Agro-Ecosystem Observation And Research Station, Chinese Academy Of Sciences, Institute Of Soil Science, Chinese Academy Of Sciences

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

No abstract provided.

News Flash

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

No abstract provided.

Green Transition Situations And Development Suggestions For Upstream Petroleum Industry, Lirong Dou, Feng Gao, Yun Peng, Xi Wang, Liang Xiong

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

In the current global energy transition process, which is accelerating overall but with further uncertainty, the global oil and gas industry is showing four major trends: a shift in business structure from oil and gas dominance to multi-energy complementarity, a shift in market structure from globalization to differentiation between the Eastern and Western hemispheres, a shift in policy orientation from radical transition to orderly development, and an expansion of technological innovation from traditional to emerging fields. Governments of various countries and international oil companies have made adjustments to policies, strategic goals, implementation paths, and other aspects based on their own …

Book Review: Info Ops: From World War I To The Twitter Era, José De Arimatéia Da Cruz

Parameters Bookshelf – Online Book Reviews

Editors: Ofer Fridman, Vitaly Kabernik, and Francesca Granelli

Reviewed by Dr. José de Arimatéia da Cruz, Department of Homeland Defense and Security Issues, Center for Strategic Leadership, US Army War College

Dr. José de Arimatéia da Cruz calls Info Ops a “must-read for any future combatant commander concerned about how our enemies use information and communication technologies within a contested environment to advance their causes and wreak havoc within an increasingly polarized society.” He overviews the book’s topics, including World War I and World War II, social media, Soviet Union propaganda, and even Israel and Hamas, and discusses their immediate …

Research Support Services, Post Award Team, Research Management – Challenges, Aideen O'Byrne, Caroline Mcgowan

Other

In this presentation we outline some of the broad and specific challenges faced by TU Dublin's Research Support Services, Post Award team, when working with funded research projects.

Research Support Services, Post Award Team, Research Management – Best Practice, Aideen O'Byrne, Caroline Mcgowan

Other

In this presentation we explain the Post Award services available within TU Dublin's Research Support Services, outlining a number of best practices for research management.

Book Review: Skies Of Thunder: The Deadly World War Ii Mission Over The Roof Of The World, Heather Venable

Parameters Bookshelf – Online Book Reviews

Author: Caroline Alexander

Reviewed by Dr. Heather Venable, course director, Airpower Strategy and Operations, Air Command and Staff College

Dr. Heather Venable, course director, Airpower Strategy and Operations, at the Air Command and Staff College, insightfully analyzes multifaceted author and translator Caroline Alexander’s latest history of the China-Burma-India Theater. Venable overviews the book’s four main elements and the two structural topics—the “ ‘Hump’ of the Himalayas” and the land bridge. She praises the author’s “beguiling human and geographical detail” that “brings the CBI Theater to life while casting a critical eye on the human frailties of her research subjects.”

Stepparenting And Schooling: Challenges, Reconstitutions, And Outsider Perceptions, Christopher Repa

Dissertations

This study examined the challenges stepparents face in schooling their high-school aged children. An analysis of how stepfamily formation can impact this process was also investigated. The sample included 13 families composed of one biological and one non-biological parent with at least one child between the ages of 14 and 18 who was currently attending high school. Stepparents were asked to share their experiences with other family members, the school, and the community as they related to the education of their stepchildren. The primary research focus was to identify difficulties and successes that stepparents encounter as they engage with schools …

Black-Owned Businesses In The Mountain West, 2017-2020, Riley Ruff, Miguel Soriano Ralston, Caitlin J. Saladino, William E. Brown Jr.

Economic Development & Workforce

This fact sheet examines data on Black-owned businesses in the Mountain West states of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah. The report “Who is driving Black business growth? Insights from the latest data on Black- owned businesses" from the Brookings Institution includes data on Black-owned businesses in metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) across the United States.

Indigenous Practices In Head Start Classrooms— Toward Survivance And Indigenization In Policy And Practice, Liza Xet Smith

LMU/LLS Theses and Dissertations

The Office of Head Start has prioritized holistic quality education services for children and communities in greatest need. First, since 1965, the federal government has funded, regulated, and publicly aided over 38 million children through Head Start programming, including AIAN and Migrant programs (Administration for Children and Families, n.d.). In 2019, over $10 billion was budgeted for the program, resulting in 1,047,000 low-income children and their families receiving services (Office of Head Start, 2022a). In addition, the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation has funded research to improve quality and child outcomes, with research recommendations that significantly guide state and …

Karnataka Government Must Revisit Gig Workers Bill, Make It More Inclusive, Babu Mathew, Saurabh Bhattacharjee, Madhulika T

Popular Media

The Karnataka Platform-Based Gig Workers (Social Security and Welfare) Bill, 2024 has been favourably received by several commentators, but a closer inspection of the text of the Bill reveals glaring omissions, which if left unaddressed are likely to undermine the Bill’s objectives.

Analyzing The Legitimacy, Effectiveness, And Legacy Of The United Nations, Hunter Wade Calley

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis examines the legitimacy and effectiveness of the United Nations since its establishment, while also exploring the shortcomings of its predecessor, the League of Nations. The legitimacy of the United Nations and the role the organization plays in the world of international politics, the flaws of the UN Security Council, and the impact of the Cold War on the legitimacy and processes of the United Nations are especially highlighted throughout this thesis.

The successes and shortcomings of the United Nations are best understood given the historical context of the League of Nations, the organization founded to bring world powers …

U.S. News & World Report 2024 Graduate Program Rankings, Unlv & Unr, Madison Dwyer, Caitlin J. Saladino, William E. Brown Jr.

Higher Education

This fact sheet presents 2024 graduate program rankings for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) and for the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) based on the data published in spring 2024 by U.S. News and World Report. The graduate program categories reported include business, education, engineering, fine arts, law, medicine and health care, sciences and mathematics, and social sciences and humanities.

Digital Records Management: The History Of Your City, Rachel Rowe

Certified Public Manager® Applied Research

As technology rapidly advances, city governments face the challenge of preserving the past and preparing for the future. This article explores digital records management, outlining the background of historical records and their significance in understanding a city’s history. Crucial digitization steps include gathering the right team, following records retention policies, identifying documents, and efficiently managing data. The challenges of preservation efforts, technical and training concerns, workflow management, and compliance with open records laws are addressed. The City of Kilgore’s digitization process reveals how managing records is key to forming a city’s identity and linking the community to its history. This …

Illegal Dumping: Prevention, Abatement, And Compliance Strategies For Cities, Ingrid Self

Certified Public Manager® Applied Research

Illegal dumping, with its many monikers and negative impacts, is a prevailing issue challenging Texas local government. Whether driven by malicious intent or stemming from ignorance of policies and laws, illegal dumping creates health and safety risks for Texans, degrades wildlife areas, impedes economic development and becomes an expensive burden on city budgets. The growing amount of e-waste and the proliferation of improper tire disposal exacerbate the issue, compelling Texas cities to find ways to quickly abate junk piles and deter future dumping crimes.

Across Texas, programs to combat illegal dumping are gaining momentum. These initiatives establish methods for immediate …