UK Metascience Unit (UKRI) is a small team spanning the UK’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and UK Research and Innovation, conducting bold experiments on funding processes; cultivating a larger and more policy-facing metascience research community; advancing global metascience through large, multi-actor projects; and contributing to an analytically enriched public science system.
Elsevier is a global leader in advanced information and decision support for science and healthcare. Elsevier believes that by working together with the communities it serves, human progress can be shaped to go further, happen faster, and benefit all.
RAND Europe is a not-for-profit research organisation that aims to improve policy and decision-making in the public interest through research and analysis. RAND’s clients include European governments, institutions, non-governmental organisations and firms with a need for rigorous, independent, multidisciplinary analysis. The Metascience Novelty Indicators Challenge is delivered as part of RAND Europe’s Research and Innovation Ecosystems portfolio, which focuses on supporting the research community, industry and policymakers in the development of sustainable research and innovation ecosystems worldwide.
With almost 60 years of experience, SPRU is internationally recognised as a leading centre of research on science, technology, and innovation policy. Founded in 1966 by Christopher Freeman, a pioneer of what is now known as innovation studies, SPRU was one of the first interdisciplinary research centres in the field of science and technology policy and management. Today, with over 60 faculty members, SPRU remains at the forefront of new ideas, problem-orientated research, inspiring teaching, and creative, high impact engagement with decision makers across government, business and civil society.
