The funding organizations have different priorities for research themes and resource allocation; they also operate subject to different regulatory and institutional constraints that limit
Here, tentative interests in prospective collaboration can be probed by inviting stakeholders from different countries to explore what research themes should be pursued through international joint RTD activities
The plans to establish an international research program meant that the funding organizations had to define focal research themes for European RTD collaboration.
as well as by the treatment of research areas and research themes as relevant‘units of analysis'that experts could be assessed with the Internet-based decision support tool.
In line with these concepts, the 1990s were also characterised by a great reluctance of government policy to prioritise research themes and select technologies in a top down manner.
The second phase included an analysis of the received material from phase 1. The material was analysed by an independent expert panel that consisted of eight members with the aim of identifying coherent research themes in the received material.
In Denmark, the scan issues were used as input for the selection of prioritised research themes in a four-year cycle of research funding (see Figure 3). The scan data were used alongside the outcome of a public internet‘hearing'process that delivered an additional input
The final proposal Dialogue with involved parties from research and society Final research themes RESEARCH2015 catalogue Figure 3. Design of the Danish OECD DAST horizon scan Source:
Cuhls, Bunkowski and Behlau provide a case study of the Fraunhofer Institutes'action-oriented foresight process of using global challenges to identify and implemeen research themes for future markets.
although this may be true to different degrees across the different research themes. These shortcomings are recognised well in Horizon 2020
and research themes as relevant‘units of analysis'that experts could assess with an internet-based decision support tool.
and strategiicall develop research themes across its institutes. In this paper, we address the question of global challenges, their definition,
by adapting its corporate process for defining and developiin research themes across its institutes. Fraunhofer's strategic R&d planning predominantly takes place at the level of its 60 institutes and its six groups of institutes, each with a similar technological scope.
and strategically develop research themes across institutes (Fraunhofer Future topics). This process is repeated every three years (Klingner and Behlau 2008.
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