A Strategy for International Cooperation in the COVID-19 Pandemic Era: Focusing on National Scientific Funding Data

2020

IJERPH

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An international research and development (R&D) collaboration for aging-related projects is necessary to alleviate the severe economic/healthcare/humanitarian challenges of a global aging society. This study presents a practical/systematic framework that enables the provision of information on the research goals, the status of science and technology, and action plans of aging-related program development processes. We used data on aging-related national-funded projects from the United States of America, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Korea. We collected data on 6318 national-funded projects, subsequently designating research fields to each project. By analyzing the content of the projects, their representative research fields, and the associated keywords, we assessed the general goals of six different research fields. To recognize the current scientific capabilities of these research fields, we divided the projects by clusters. We provided information on research organizations, specific goals (i.e., project title), project periods, and the funding related to the projects. These may be used by stakeholders in various governments/institutions/industries during future discussions regarding the establishment of an international R&D collaboration strategy. The approach we proposed may facilitate the linkage between knowledge and action during strategy development by maximizing scientific legitimacy, developing consensual knowledge, and minimizing diverging opinions among stakeholders.

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

International R&D Collaboration for a Global Aging Society: Focusing on Aging-Related National-Funded Projects

Lee

Kim²,

2020

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“…In another study, Ng [42] observed that traditional Chinese medicine and vitamin D were often mentioned as alternative therapies before the introduction of any medication or vaccine. Lee et al [20] determined the major research areas of studies supported by public funds in the United States, the European Union, Japan, and South Korea, and analyzed the characteristics of each country. This study observed that in South Korea, research mostly focused on immune reaction platforms, vaccine development, and diagnosis, and thereby inferred the South Korean government's development policies for biotechnology industries and the impacts of government-led research and development.…”

Section: Research Trends On Covid-19mentioning

confidence: 99%

A Review of Global Collaboration on COVID-19 Research during the Pandemic in 2020

Cho

2021

Sustainability

In response to the COVID-19 crisis, which has become a severe threat to the health and sustainability of human life, scholars have published numerous research results. Although the importance of international research collaboration has been highlighted as a means of overcoming this global crisis, research on this particular problem has been lacking. Therefore, this study focused on the response of academia to COVID-19 by examining the collaboration between international research, and its impact. This study extracted data from Scopus, sampling articles and reviews published in 2020. By analyzing scenarios by country and international research collaboration based on data on authors’ nationalities and the research areas of documents, this study revealed that the United States and China contributed the most. In all countries, most research was conducted on medicine. European and American countries demonstrated significant interest in the social sciences and Asian countries in the life sciences. Furthermore, some countries, including Belgium and Pakistan, extended their research interests through international research collaboration. The results of this study highlight the importance of international research collaboration across various areas by overcoming the regional imbalance in intercountry collaboration and the concentration on a limited scope of subjects.

“…Based on previous studies [51,52,54,55], a co-occurrence technique was employed to identify the hydrogen-economy-related research fields. The number of times the ASJC codes appeared together in a project group revealed the relevance of that project.…”

Section: Clustering Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…By visualizing this network structure, the relationship between the ASJC codes could be elucidated. The mapping and clustering were calculated based on previous studies [51,52,54,55].…”

Section: Clustering Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Research and Development Investment and Collaboration Framework for the Hydrogen Economy in South Korea

Lee

2021

Sustainability

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South Korea developed its hydrogen strategies to achieve carbon neutrality and dominate the hydrogen economy amidst, and with the impetus, of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The government strives toward the goal via continuous investment in green hydrogen technologies, as well as strategic collaborations. To facilitate the transition into the hydrogen economy, this study presents a research and development (R&D) investment and collaboration framework as a national strategy. The framework offers abundant information to elucidate the technology, R&D spectrum, and regional dimensions of the strategy. Furthermore, the proposed framework was applied to the Korean hydrogen economy comprising 955 nationally funded projects worth USD 565.7 million. The statuses and trends of the government’s investment in nationally funded research projects are illustrated with regard to the value chains of the hydrogen economies of 16 regions, as well as nine technology clusters relating to the hydrogen economy, thereby determining the research organizations that played crucial roles in each cluster of the 16 regions between 2015 and 2020. The results indicate that the research organizations in Daejeon acquired the highest government R&D funding in many hydrogen-economy-related research fields, and that an R&D spectrum-based research/strategic collaboration is required to accomplish specialized complexes in the regions.