On the Agenda – Week 48, 2014

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5 december 2014 | Universities buying citations for the sake of rankings, China's growing share in ICT patents, a Nobelprize sold for $4.76 million, Neelie Kroes writing about net neutrality in Dutch Sinterklaas style and the science behind Miley Cyrus' Wrecking Ball. This week's On the Agenda.

Take 1 –Higher Education

Citations for sale for the sake of global/world university #rankings: http://t.co/kYSvE3cpMd #bibliometrics pic.twitter.com/MinIM54iVO

— GlobalHigherEd (@GlobalHigherEd) December 5, 2014

Explore important trends in U.S. doctoral education. #NCSES releases new data: http://t.co/oKxhOYwCf1

— National Science Fdn (@NSF) December 4, 2014

UK unis have a role to play in African #highered, says Gossy Ukanwoke – partnership benefits both sides http://t.co/o2Ur1oP8Dd

— Higher Education (@GdnHigherEd) December 4, 2014

India’s Labour Ministry plans Vocational University http://t.co/9o8u5DSOOC

— Jamshed Siddiqui (@IndianHigherEd) December 5, 2014

Take 2 –Research and Development

US has most ICT #patents, but #China’s share is growing, now ranked 3rd in #DigitalEconomy http://t.co/sZBQTEqUWq pic.twitter.com/lv31X8S5VB

— OECD (@OECD) December 4, 2014

Watson’s DNA Nobel medal sells for $4.76 million http://t.co/eMJtrRUfLt

— Nature News&Comment (@NatureNews) December 4, 2014

The moon’s molten, churning core likely generated a powerful dynamo 4 billion years ago. http://t.co/1dg15QJA4y pic.twitter.com/HzQwP2jpSq

— MIT (@MIT) December 4, 2014

Science in strange places. The “science” section of the Wrecking Ball (Miley Cyrus song) wikipedia entry pic.twitter.com/zCHiqOpZST

— Research@UGent (@ResearchUGent) December 5, 2014

Take 3 –Europe

Switzerland and EU join forces in science and research http://t.co/c7f5ENhf0M

— New Europe (@New_Europe) December 5, 2014

Very cool blog by @NeelieKroesEU in the Dutch Sinterklaas style: http://t.co/DkRWhb5y9z

— Bastiaan Zwanenburg (@bastiaan96) December 5, 2014

Europe is going #bigdata -big time http://t.co/d3PXPF9zSd via @forbes

— EU Data Ecosystem (@EUDataEcosystem) December 5, 2014

EU companies invested in R&D more than €162 billion last year. #Volkswagen leading http://t.co/IE2fUx9hQb #investEU pic.twitter.com/XwspJippEH

— Digital Agenda (@DigitalAgendaEU) December 5, 2014

…and this week on ScienceGuideEU

China leads latest @THEworldunirank for emerging economies, while Turkey surprises http://t.co/VQmRLbcgno

— ScienceGuideEU (@ScienceGuideEU) December 4, 2014

European Parliament wants to save Horizon 2020 from cuts to support Juncker’s Investment Plan http://t.co/qqV5JLlYn7

— ScienceGuideEU (@ScienceGuideEU) December 1, 2014