Wednesday, January 20, 2016

R-D Collaboratory 2016-01-20


R-D Collaboratory 2016-01-20
  • Rob Annan went on the CBC to talk about a new Mitacs research paper. That paper, Leveraging Canada’s Innovation Ecosystem, looks at Canada’s strengths and challenges in attracting foreign investment in R&D.
  • NSERC President Mario Pinto discussed some of the challenges facing NSERC, and the council’s strategic plan for the next few years.
  • Here’s an article about some of the head-games PhD students play when deciding when it’s time to leave academia. Apparently, the proportion of PhDs in the US who manage to secure tenured positions is about 1 in 200.
  • An article about student debt in the US highlights that students loan debt now exceeds credit card debt and auto-loans. 

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