e g. no innovation-oriented research programme can be sustained successfully for a longer period without skilful management.
and vi) implementation of transnational research program to improve competitiveness and sustainability of the forest cluster.
United kingdom) eventually have decided to launch a cofunnde research program in the field of wood material science.
Drawing upon experiences from earlier collaboration with the Systems analysis Laboratory at Helsinki University of Technology in the development of a Scandinavian co-funded Wood Material Science Research program 16, the project plan for the Woodwisdom
the participating funding organization were asked to give a preliminary estimate about how much funding they might be willing to allocate to the sub-area in the forthcoming research program.
this, in turn, is likely to foster active participation in later research programs and mitigates the risk of ending up with a weak response to calls for proposals, for example.
Policy 1 (1)( 2004) 4 32.16 A. Salo, J. Liesiö, A case study in participatory priority-setting for a Scandinavian research program, Int. J. Info.
The strategy support systems will be developed further for different technology fields being investigated within the framework of the Frontiers research programme.
In principle, this concept could be applied in the study of different kinds of societal objects and objectives, related to national innovation system, regions, research programmes or societal actors, engaging private enterprises and public organizations.
Organisation of scientific communities Establishment of research alliances Research programmes and initiatives Innovation policy instruments Ideation A round-table discussion enhanced this discussion
Andersen and Borup's paper addresses the issue of foresight and strategy processes of national research councils and research programmes.
Also that a more formal use of foresight elements could improve the legitimacy and impact of the strategic considerations of research councils and research programmes.
http://www. tandfonline. com/loi/ctas20 Foresight and strategy in national research councils and research programmes Per Dannemand Andersen a & Mads Borup a a Department of Management Engineering, Technical University
Per Dannemand Andersen & Mads Borup (2009) Foresight and strategy in national research councils and research programmes, Technology analysis & Strategic management, 21:8, 917-932, DOI:
8 november 2009,917 932 Foresight and strategy in national research councils and research programmes Per Dannemand Andersen*and Mads Borup Department of Management Engineering
Technical University of Denmark, Produktionstrovet 424, DK-2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark This paper addresses the issue of foresight and strategy processes of national research councils and research programmes.
We also argue that a more formal use of foresight elements might improve the legitimacy and impact of the strategic considerations of research councils and research programmes.
the funding for research and innovation councils and targeted research programmes is a more dynamic instrument, suitable for interaction with national science and innovation policy.
and research programmes foresight or not do strategic thinking and set up smaller or larger, formal or informal,
In some form or another there are always strategy processes in national research councils and research programmes. Instead of analysing directly the difficulties with using foresiigh as a strategic input to research council funding activities,
and analyses the strategy processes in national research councils and research programmes and the challenges that they are facing.
and research programmes. 2. Foresight and strategy processes in Research strategy and priority-setting processes have probably always been used by research communities,
and strategy in national research councils and research programmes 919 and the emerging generic technologies likely to yield the greatest economical and social benefits'(Martin 1995).
The same type of rationale is used often also for strategy processes in research councils and research programmes. Examplle of strategy and priority-setting processes in public research can be found from Spain, UK, Norway, The netherlands, France and Denmark in a report from the European project MUSCIPOLI (Siune 2001.
and strategy in national research councils and research programmes 921 that the field of foresight is indebted more to the field of strategy than vice versa.
As a consequence, the positioning and organisational structure of a research council or research programme's strategic research,
and strategy in national research councils and research programmes 923 Foresight and strategy focus on competencies and visions for defining future development;
Most European countrrie have research councils, research programmes or similar institutions, but their structure varies significantly (EU DG Research 2005).
Both national research councils and research programmes often channel money to new and important emerging research areas and topics.
The strategies and micro-politics of research programmes can thus play a central role in some cases a key role in the broader strategies and developments of science and research systems.
Research councils and research programmes offer a much more dynamic and prioritisable instrument in national science systems. Also, by representing a second strand of research funding,
in addition to basic funding of universities and other government laboratories, research programmes contribute to competition within the research system. 3. 2. About the study
but quite a few also included thoughts on education and on the potential industrial and societal Downloaded by University of Bucharest at 05:09 03 december 2014 Foresight and strategy in national research councils and research programmes 925 impacts of the suggested research.
A third funding source for energy research, a New energy and Environment Research programme, was established also in the period through the Strategic research Council, under the auspices of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation.
but the Ministry did not approve this Downloaded by University of Bucharest at 05:09 03 december 2014 Foresight and strategy in national research councils and research programmes 927 suggestion.
The strategy work was used in the funding decisions of the research programmes as early as 2003. In the second half of 2003 and in 2004, two other areas were defined as priorities for strategy development.
and strategy in national research councils and research programmes 929 Although there is a rich and growing application-oriented literature on foresight in science
and strateggi processes in Danish research councils and research programmes. Erratic evidence from the study behind this paper also indicated this.
and civil servants affiliated to some of the relevant research councils and research programmes. One presenttatio was intended to initiate a discussion of how foresight methods could enrich strategy processes within the councils and programmes.
and research programmes can be of legitimate strategic interest to governments. Our analysis shows that research councils and research programmes do carry out strategy processes
and that the processes are based not only on scientific excellence (peer review, etc.),), but also have a strong element of prospective outlook similar to foresight exercises.
and strategy in national research councils and research programmes 931 a full Delphi survey could be applied, but the process could also benefit from just getting inspiration from formulation of Delphi statements.
and the National research Fund (FNR) as a source of prioritised funding for multi-annual research programmes.
on the contrary, funding is directed through multi-annual research programmes. So the FNR has faced the challenge of identifying‘appropriate'programmes that will not only attract sufficient high-quality proposals from Luxembourg scientists
While some of the first generation research programmes (seven programmes were launched in the period 2000 2003) were still ongoing by 2007,
In addition to a number of specific studies, it built specifically on the results of the large-scale research programme‘Systems Research in the Urban area'that provided the analytical groundwork
and took first exploratory steps towards identifying future challenges for the RTI policy of the City of Vienna. 4 The research programme was implemented as a joint undertaking by the City of Vienna and Austrian Research centres.
it needs to be noted that the research programme and its forward-looking projects were designed at a time, when there was not even a first discussion Downloaded by University of Bucharest at 05:10 03 december 2014 958 K. M. Weber et al. about setting up a broader participatory process on research
In fact, when the research programme was started at the end of 2004, the suggestion of launching a participatory foresight process as part of the research programme was rejected by the representatives of the City of Vienna in the management team of the programme.
The goal of this comprehensive research programme was to identify scientifically founded observations and analyses to underpin the development of an integrated, future-oriented urban research and innovation policy.
Initiatives in this urban policy area were expected to contribute to enhancing the competitiveness of firms in the city,
Central to the research programme was the combination of different perspectives on the situation of the urban innovation system.
and thus to the consideration of alternative futures had been addressed in the forward-looking part Downloaded by University of Bucharest at 05:10 03 december 2014 Trade-offs between policy impacts of future-oriented analysis 967 of the preceding research programme on the Viennese innovation system,
In fact, it was a lucky coincidence that the foresight process‘Wien denkt Zukunft'could draw on a comprehensive analytical basis provided by the research programme‘Systems Research in the Urban area
Between 2006 and 2008 hewas leading a research programme on regional innovation patterns and policy in cooperation with the City of Vienna.
problematic, hypotheses and research programme. Theory, Culture & Society 20:1 33. Berkhout, F, . and J. Hertin. 2002.
That can help position research programs and identify complementary efforts by others. On another level, the Dutch government allocates research support to universities based in part upon their publication records.
It is composed as a network of research funding organisations responsible for the development of national or regional plant genomics research programmes.
With a budget of over 35ms it is one of largest coordinated transnational research programmes in the ERA NET scheme.
One DG RTD service is specifically in charge of translating nano policy objectives into research programmes,‘‘Nano-and converging Sciences and Technologies''.
Research programmes share fundamental explanations but diverge on lower level hypotheses or experimental techniques/objects 47.
Some organizations ventilate their concerns on this topic and a few research programs have been initiated to address these issues.
a research program to integrate natural science and engineering investigations with social science and policy research from the outset 44.
1 The author gratefully acknowledges the support of the Innovation-Oriented Research program‘Integral Product Creation and Realization (IOP IPCR)' of The netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation.
research program involving three related studies that examined successful foresight programs. It analyzes the key factors that appear to determine whether or not foresight,
and equipment to firms Soft Science Research program Provide reliable scientific advice to national and local policy-makers Source:
Special Science Research program 375 353 396 Others 9 15 Source: All data are from National Bureau of Statistics,
Article 185 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European union (ex Article 169 of the Treaty establisshin the European community) enables the EU to participate in research programmes undertaken jointly by several Member States,
The ERA NET scheme is one of the tools of the Seventh Framework programme (FP7) to support the coordination of non-Community research programmes.
References Acheson, H.,Amanatidou, E. and Boekholt, P. 2007)‘ Optimising research programmes and priorities',Report of the ERA Expert Group, EUR 23324.
This large-scale global programmatic framework complemennte the World Climate Research programme of WMO. Characteristic of these global programmes later complemented by the International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP), addressing the human dimensions,
and linking this to existing research programmes (see Fig. 2). The partners see the need to repeat such an approach at a certain frequency
in order to adapt research programmes to the dynamic environment. To this end a foresight and programming unit (FPU) was established,
and access to research programmes and results across all countries Mapping and analysis of existing foresight exercises for urban regions and for other non-region specific topics relevant for urban development allows gaps
and organisational change that need to be converted into research programmes Alignment of existing national programmes and research strategies in a variable geometry Vertical co-ordination Bottom up consultation process
and scoping its research programme it is often premature for many national agencies to decide on their level of committmen to that programme and its planning.
of research programmes to other nations. For example, ERAWATCH data show that two-thirds of 2009 national research prograamme relevant for the Joint Programming Initiative on Agriculture,
including policy documents and research programmes. 11. NETWATCH collects data on transnational research collaboration in the ERA. 12.
Research programmes and Capacity unit B. 3 206. T. Ko nno la and K. Haegeman Research infrastructures, EUR 24186.
Moreover, Fraunhofer headquarters fund internal research programmes for joint R&d projects in order to support cooperation between the institutes.
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