R&D Funding Opportunities – the case of Horizon 2020
By Zohar Ben-Asher In the last twenty years or so, R&D funding has become much more difficult to obtain. For once, governmental subsidies to universities and other research institutions have shrunk significantly, in a continuous manner. Also various philanthropist sources have become scarce. Industrial sources are by their very nature are narrower in scope and […]
Improving the Ranking of Academic Institutions in International Ranking Systems
By Zohar Ben-Asher In the last decade or so the international ranking of academic institutions has gained strength and it is now considered a highly important way to determine Institutional academic & scientific excellence. Indeed, it is now commonly accepted that the academic level of excellence is reflected in the position of the institution in […]