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The purpose of this article is to identify research trends in collaborative scientific studies on COVID-19, as well as the presence that different countries, approaches, areas of knowledge and topics have had in those contributions. For this purpose, bibliometric, social network and content analysis methods are used with a corpus of 63 documents indexed in Scopus and published between January 2020 and June 2021. It is found that the countries with the highest number of publications are the United Kingdom and the United States, followed by China and Canada. As for the journals, those in the area of medicine stand out. The results show that the Social Sciences are underrepresented in the collaborative contexts analyzed, and bibliometrics predominates as a methodological approach. Studies on collaborative practices have less presence and are mainly focused on analysis of experiences and cooperation challenges from the health areas to face the pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We explore the strategies implemented by Research Groups' Leaders while coping with unstable contexts, characterized by incoherence and lack of coordination among different policy discourses and instruments, and scarce resources. We focus on a country where these conditions are present: Colombia. In doing so, we study two cases, one in nanotechnology and another one in biomedical engineering. Interviews, focus groups and workshops allowed us to identify and validate strategies grouped in four popular sayings, proper to local idiosyncrasy, highlighting the role of home institutions and principal investigators in facing such situations with resilience and resourcefulness, and even taking advantage of them. We find that Research Groups' Leaders use strategies such as: adapting, balancing agendas and funding sources, networking, and taking advantage of the support programs available at their home institution to continue functioning. These are setting the ground for a further survey which could pretend some generalization. However, policymakers could consider these findings when defining policy instruments or for assessing their effectiveness or impacts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Open Access (OA) as a movement has been steadily gaining strength for roughly the last two decades. As this happens, new actors, policies and tools have emerged to support this movement, composing what could be seen as an Open Access Ecosystem (OAE). However, the literature is still surprisingly scarce on the elements, structure and relationships among the components of the actual OAE. For this reason, we review the literature on the subject in order to attain a proposal of what this OAE is at present. After reviewing the literature, we propose the OAE includes three main components: Actors, Technology, and Regulatory Framework. For each of these components, we define the elements included in each one of them, and give examples that emerge from the review of the literature on OA-related research. We propose that elucidating the actual OAE could support policy-makers, as well as the OA community, to better understand the complexity of the Ecosystem and define ways to improve its functioning. • We propose an Open Access Ecosystems - OAE - based on a literature review. • We propose the OAE includes: Actors, Technology and Regulatory Framework. • For each component we define the elements included and give examples. • Elucidating the OAE could support policymakers to define ways to improve it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents an overview of the practices and use of Intellectual Property in Colombian universities. It also describes the level of knowledge, protection, management and exploitation of Intellectual Property in Colombian universities. For this propose, we present the results of a survey on Intellectual Property in Colombian Universities. In the survey, we used the AÍDA methodology developed by the 'Centre de Recherche Henri Tudor Públic' of Luxembourg. This work was developed within the framework of the research project "PILA NETWORK", Network of Intellectual Property in Latin America, a project co-financed by the European Union in the framework of the ALFA III Program. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research investigates how evaluation processes are endogenized in the practices of university research groups. A case study is proposed in a Colombian university, through semi-structured interviews and a documentary analysis, taking as the axis of analysis the process of measuring groups that is conducted at the national level. Based on the literature on research evaluation and management, it is found that in groups and in the institution, learning emerges from the evaluation process, which is translated into differentiated research and management strategies and practices. These results contribute to the understanding of the performative dimension of research evaluation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]