Léa Velho

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the research links and knowledge flows between industrial and public sector research in three new and promising fields of advanced technology -biotechnology, engineering ceramics, and parallel computing.

TL;DR: A group of early career researchers and academics from Sao Paulo state and from the UK met at the University of Campinas to participate in a workshop on "Responsible Innovation and the Governance of socially controversial technologies".

TL;DR: In this article, the formal communication system of agricultural scientists working at two major teaching and research centres in Brazil is investigated with an eye on formulating policies to improve it, and a picture of a fragmented scientific community whose members have only tenuous links with their colleagues in other domestic institutions, and whose work appears to be lagging behind the research frontier in their field is suggested.

TL;DR: The findings presented confirm the view that in this context, citation patterns are significantly influenced by factors “external” to the scientific realm and, thus, reflect neither simply the quality, influence nor even the impact of the research work referred to.

TL;DR: The authors revisited as diferentes modalidades de julgamento por pares, desde suas origens nas primeiras associacoes cientificas no seculo XVII ate nossos dias.