Methodologically, the processwas based on the Internet-based solicitation and assessment of research issues, the deployment ofrobust Portfoliomodeling (RPM) in the identification of promising research issues,
The engagement of RTD stakeholders from all the countries was a prerequisite for identifying research issues that reflected relevant scientific and technological developments, on one hand,
in order to i) identify similarities and interdependences between proposed research issues, and to ii) generate more holistic perspectives on the emerging agenda.
They submitted research issues and assessed these issues in view of their perceived novelty. They were asked also to indicate how interested they would be in participating in a possible research project on any given research issue,
if such a project were to be launched at a later time. Industrial leaders consisted of R&d and business managers in the forestry-related industry.
These issues were assessed by Researchers and Industrial Table 1 Phases of the Woodwisdom-Net consultation process Task Participants Schedule 1. Solicitation of research issues Researchers Mid-july Mid-october‘05
2. Assessment of research issues Researchers December‘05 Mid-january‘06 3. Assessment of research issues Industrial leaders Three last weeks of January‘06 4. Initial
screening of research issues Project team January February‘06 5. Three one-day workshops for Researchers and Industrial leaders 10 12 Researchers and Industrial leaders
To some extent, network-building was supported also by listing the registered participants on the website of the consultation process. 7 3. 2. 2. 1. Solicitation of research issues.
In the first phase, National Coordinators invited Researchers in their respective countries to submit research issues through the Internet questionnaire. 8 These questionnaires were implemented by using Opinions-Online decision support tool9
and sub-area the issue would fit best within a taxonomical framework that was developed for the research issues.
In total, well over 200 Researchers from the participating countries submitted research issues. 3. 2. 2. 2. Assessment of research issues from the research perspective.
In the second phase, National Coordinators invited Researchers to assess the research issues that had been submitted in the first phase.
moreover, to describe how they would like to contribute to a possible project later on. 3. 2. 2. 3. Assessment of research issues from the industrial perspective.
In the third phase, National Coordinators invited Industrial leaders to assess the submitted research issues. Industrial leaders were asked first to choose which sub-areas they were interested in,
The purpose of the first criterion was to measure how relevant the research issue would to industrial uses,
which the issue was seen to call for RTD cooperation at the European level. 3. 2. 2. 4. Initial screening of research issues.
After the research issues were submitted and assessed the Project Team analyzed issues based on the assessment data.
In the context of Woodwisdom-Net, it was employed by regarding research issues as tentative ideas for possible projects that might be promoted in the international program.
The value of entire portfolios of research issues is additive, too, because the value of a portfolio is obtained by summing the values of its constituent issues.
consequently, the RPM analysis was carried out by identifying alternative portfolios of 7 research issues that could be regarded as attractive in view of incomplete preference information about the relative importance of the assessment criteria.
This rank-ordering which emphasized that there would have to be a strong rationale for pursuing research issues through international collaboration implied linear constraints on the criterion weights i e.
which research issues and sub-areas would be particularly suitable for the international research Fig. 1. Core index values for research issues in sub-area 1. 3 (Creating new functionalities
so that they could become familiar with the proposed research issues, experts assessments and corresponding CI values. A separate set of background materials was prepared for each workshop
and to list the five most interesting research issues per sub-area. The participants were asked also to make a tentative recommendation on how they would distribute funds (in terms of percentages) among the sub-areas
based on the quality of solicited research issues and the workshop discussions (approx. 1 h). Towards the end of the workshop, the results from these questionnaires were compiled separately for each country
Also, research issues that had been regarded as particularly interesting in the preceding workshops were listed explicitly. Separate analyses were presented at the aggregate level (i e.,
In effect, the bottom up consultation process in Woodwisdom-Net where the participating researchers and industrialists interacted with a large shared pool of research issues can be contrasted with less transparent processes of international RTD priority setting where the preliminary priorities
A particularly valuable aspect of bottom up consultation processes is that the solicitation and assessment of research issues,
For each research issue, such an analysis conveys which research groups are keen on participating in corresponding project consortia,
Networks of innovators, a synthesis of research issues. Research policy 20, no. 5: 499 514. Freeman, C. 2002.
conceptual foundations and research issues, MIS Quarterly: Management Information systems 25 (1)( 2001) 107 136.39 T. Rogers-Hayden, N. Pidgeon, Moving engagement‘‘upstream''?
and prioritise emerging service research issues. The second phase of the roadmapping was thematic, and it was carried out in five groups.
All these activities produced a total of 754 research issues to be explored further and refined 25.
and carefully planned workshoops 317 future-oriented research issues were proposed by researchers and assessed by researchers
which will support transnational research programming by delivering research issues. To this end, longer-term strategic requirements with a 10 5 year outlook are identified in a systematic way, building on knowledge about future aspects of animal disease develoopmen in Europe and the world,
and starting new initiatives with European R&i communities Temporal co-ordination Consultation on research issues among stakeholders provided future-oriented information on directtio and interests of research community.
in order to first, identify similarities and interdependences between proposed research issues; and secondly to generate more holistic perspectives on the emerging agenda. 4. 1. 2 Modular and structured process for balanced and diverse stakeholder engagement.
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