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Science And Technology In Wales
Various science and technology sectors and organisations operate in Wales. Government The Wales Science and Innovation Advisory Council gives advice to the Chief Scientific Adviser for Wales on science, innovation and business policy for Wales but does not have any statutory or financial responsibilities. Members of the council include individuals involved in research and innovation, academics and those involved in industry. Science Research * From 2010 to 2018, Welsh researchers accounted for 4% of UK publications and 0.3% of global scholarly output. * Wales is the most efficient of all its comparators in terms of output per expenditure. * Wales' research and development funding now accounts for 62% of total expenditure. * Wales's citation impact has risen to 1.8. This is 80% above the global average and 13% above the UK average. * Wales' proportion of top 5% of the most cited publications is twice the global average. Health Health and Care Research Wales is a network ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science In Wales - A Video By The Welsh Government
Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for scientific reasoning is tens of thousands of years old. The earliest written records in the history of science come from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in around 3000 to 1200 BCE. Their contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine entered and shaped Greek natural philosophy of classical antiquity, whereby formal attempts were made to provide explanations of events in the physical world based on natural causes. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, knowledge of Greek conceptions of the world deteriorated in Western Europe during the early centuries (400 to 1000 CE) of the Middle Ages, but was preserved in the Muslim world during the Islamic Golden Age and later by the efforts of Byzantine Greek scholars who brought Greek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
