A Global Look at Young Scientists

Research managers and executives generally concede that many of most original and innovative ideas in research enterprise come from young scientists--researchers within few years of end of their doctoral training. Experience in North America and Europe has also shown that geography presents no barrier to scientific achievement: brightest young scientists can originate from anywhere in Developing countries increasingly shape science and contribute to global advancement of knowledge, says Rees Kassen, Canadian who is co-chair of Global Young Academy (GYA), an organization that bills itself as the voice of young scientists around world. recent survey by GYA has provided insight into needs and contributions of these young, emerging researchers. Founded in 2010 in Berlin, Germany, academy aims to raise profile of young scientists in developed and developing countries. As key part of that ambition, academy organized global survey of young researchers around including those in often-neglected regions and countries, aiming to understand how young researchers contribute to knowledge landscape and determine what obstacles they encounter in process across By exploring global state of young scientists and identifying their opportunities, concerns, and needs, project's leaders hoped to initiate change and catalyze improvement in global research system. A Vast Pool of Global Talent GYA's ambitions for project, called GloSYS (for Global State of Young Scientists), were ambitious. Recognizing key role young researchers play in achieving scientific excellence and solving international problems and in driving the new knowledge economy, where research and innovation are drivers of economic growth, socioeconomic development and enlightenment for countries around world, original project description characterized young scientists as a vast pool of global talent that stands to change geography of knowledge in fundamental ways. The goal of study, description says, is to understand precisely how young researchers can succeed in and contribute to knowledge landscape and what obstacles they face in doing so ... By exploring global state of young scientists and identifying their opportunities and concerns, GloSYS project aims to initiate change and catalyze improvement in global system of science. In pursuit of these goals, GloSYS team collected 650 written responses to survey asking young scientists about their professional lives and conducted 45 in-depth interviews with individual young scientists, defined as researchers in their 30s who were within 10 years of receiving their doctoral degrees. Surveys and interviews were conducted with researchers from five regions: Nigeria and South Africa; Japan, Sri Lanka, and Thailand; Germany; Egypt, Pakistan, and Tunisia; and Brazil, Canada, and United States. The survey sample was almost evenly divided between men and women; majority had received their PhDs between 2007 and 2013. We adopted an inclusive approach focusing on all world regions and selecting countries with different development stages, said Catherine Beaudry, associate professor of creation, development, and commercialization of innovation at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal and principal investigator of study. Our unique internationally comparative perspective enabled us to reflect authentic voice and experiences of young researchers, scholars, and scientists worldwide. Variety of Obstacles Survey responses and interviews revealed variety of hardships and obstacles to career advancement. …

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