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Lots of money for national science, but few publications from Africa
Researchers are keen to take courses in scholarly integrity, and don’t want more time to write patent applications.
Illustration: Bodara
73%
of researchers are in favour of obligatory courses in scholarly integrity according to a survey conducted by Springer Nature Verlag and the Australian Academy of Science. Twenty-six percent of those surveyed claimed there were problems with misconduct in the field of research.
15
billion pounds is what the British government intends investing in its own research programme if the UK does not achieve association with the Horizon Europe programme, according to Nature News in early June 2022.
1.15%
was the proportion of the world’s scholarly and scientific articles that originated from Sub-Saharan Africa in the year 2018, according to statistics of the World Bank. That is an increase of 72 percent since 2005. In 2018, Sub-Saharan Africa made up 14 percent of the world’s population, and two percent of the world’s total GDP.
1
year is the amount of time that researchers in the USA, Japan and Korea are allowed between publishing an invention and submitting a patent application. In Europe, the submission must be made before publication. Despite this, a survey conducted by the European Patent Office has found that very few people want the system to change.
