Seminar Deutsch-Schwedischer Forschungsverein Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences

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Seminar Deutsch-Schwedischer ForschungsvereinRoy
al Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences

• New Research Policy Developments in Germany

Klaus Matthes International Relations Federal
Ministry of Education and Research Germany
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Position of Germany in the world Germanys RD
structure and policy development The Hightech
Strategy Internationalization
aspects Germanys EU Council Presidency Outloo
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Germany
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Foreign direct investment stock development
outward
Inward
Source World Investment Report 2005, UNCTAD
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The worlds leaders in RD 2004Size of circle
reflects the share in global RD spending.
Sweden
Japan
US
Germany
China
India
Source Batelle, RD-Magazine, World Bank, OECD
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Position of Germany in the world Germanys RD
structure and policy development The Hightech
Strategy Internationalization
aspects Germanys EU Council Presidency Outloo
k
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The German research system
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From funding single projects...
Global RD- Networks/Clusters
... to support networks and clusters
Strategic Projects Regional Innovation Networks
Traditional Targeted Programmes Single projects
RD Cooperation Support
2010
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Increasing the efficiency of RD instruments
From institutional .....to performance oriented
funding
Evaluation
Competition
from broad competence distributionto centres of
global excellence
2010
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Position of Germany in the world Germanys RD
structure and policy development The Hightech
Strategy Internationalization
aspects Germanys EU Council Presidency Outloo
k
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The High-Tech Strategy for Germany
Cross-cutting activities

Investing in human capital
Strengthening Germany's international position
Supporting the quicker dissemination of
new technologies
Improving the conditions for high-tech start-ups a
nd innovative SMEs
Pooling the forces of science and industry
Specific innovation strategies
Innovations for a healthy and safe life
Innovations for communication and mobility
Innovations through generic technologies
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Cross-cutting activities

Wir investieren in die Köpfe der Menschen
Wir stärken die internationale Position
Deutschlands
Wir unterstützen die schnellere Verbreitung von
neuen Technologien
Pooling the forcesof science and industry
Wir verbessern die Bedingungen für
High-Tech-Gründungen und den innovativen
Mittelstand

• New impetus to cooperation between science and
  industry
• Application-oriented science and a
  research-friendly industrial environment
• Increasing exchanges of experts

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Cross-cutting activities

Wir investieren in die Köpfe der Menschen
Wir stärken die internationale Position
Deutschlands
Wir unterstützen die schnellere Verbreitung von
neuen Technologien
Wir bündeln die Kräfte von Wissenschaft und
Wirtschaft
Improving the conditions for high-tech start-ups
and innovative SMEs

• Supporting the establishment and growth of new
  technology-based companies
• Increasing the participation of small and
  medium-sized enterprises in innovation
• Improving the conditions for private RD
  investment

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Cross-cutting activities

Wir investieren in die Köpfe der Menschen
Wir stärken die internationale Position
Deutschlands
Supporting the quicker dissemination of
new technologies
Wir bündeln die Kräfte von Wissenschaft und
Wirtschaft
Wir verbessern die Bedingungen für
High-Tech-Gründungen und den innovativen
Mittelstand

• Improving the protection and use of intellectual
  property
• Enhancing standardization in innovation processes
• Exploiting the innovation potential of public
  procurement
• Simplifying processes and structures through
  e-government

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Cross-cutting activities

Wir investieren in die Köpfe der Menschen
Strengthening Germany's international position
Wir unterstützen die schnellere Verbreitung von
neuen Technologien
Wir bündeln die Kräfte von Wissenschaft und
Wirtschaft
Wir verbessern die Bedingungen für
High-Tech-Gründungen und den innovativen
Mittelstand

• Increasing research and innovation competence
  through international cooperation
• Cooperating in the design of European research
  and innovation policy

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Cross-cutting activities

Investing in human capital
Wir stärken die internationale Position
Deutschlands
Wir unterstützen die schnellere Verbreitung von
neuen Technologien
Wir bündeln die Kräfte von Wissenschaft und
Wirtschaft
Wir verbessern die Bedingungen für
High-Tech-Gründungen und den innovativen
Mittelstand

• Developing the vocational education system
  further in keeping with future needs
• Enhancing lifelong learning processes and
  continuing education
• Exploiting unused qualification resources in a
  targeted approach
• Increasing support for the highly talented
• Attracting talent and expertise from abroad
• Higher Education Pact 2020
• Improving research and education excellence
  visibly and lastingly

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Germanys Excellence Initiative Results of the
first round
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Deutschland nimmt die Herausforderungen des 21.
Jahrhunderts an
Die Querschnittsaktivitäten

Wir investieren in die Köpfe der Menschen
Wir stärken die internationale Position
Deutschlands
Wir unterstützen die schnellere Verbreitung von
neuen Technologien
Wir bündeln die Kräfte von Wissenschaft und
Wirtschaft
Wir verbessern die Bedingungen für
High-Tech-Gründungen und den innovativen
Mittelstand
Specific innovation strategies
Innovations for a healthy and safe life
Innovations for communication and mobility
Innovations through generic technologies
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Specific innovation strategies
Innovations for a healthy and safe life
Innovationen für ein kommunikatives und mobiles
Leben
Innovationen durch Querschnittstechnologien

• Health research and medical technology
  Stimulating a growth market
• Security technologies Fighting crime and
  terrorism
• Plants New approaches in agriculture and
  industry
• Energy technologies Challenges for the 21st
  century
• Environmental technologies Clean water and air,
  fertile soil

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Specific innovation strategies
Innovationen für ein gesundes und sicheres Leben
Innovations for communication and mobility
Innovationen durch Querschnittstechnologien

• Information and communication technologies
  Starting the number one driver for innovation
• Vehicle and transport technologies Mobility for
  tomorrow
• Aeronautical technologies Safer and cleaner
  aircraft
• Space technologies Research in outer space for
  life on Earth
• Maritime technologies Innovations for the oceans
• Services Towards the knowledge economy

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Specific innovation strategies
Innovationen für ein gesundes und sicheres Leben
Innovationen für ein kommunikatives und mobiles
Leben
Innovations through generic technologies

• Nanoscience Small-scale technologies with large
  economic potential
• Biotechnology Life sciences to be broadly
  applied
• Microsystems engineering Pioneering intelligent
  products
• Optical technologies Light creates jobs and
  growth
• Materials engineering The new design of matter
• Production engineering Supplier for the global
  economy

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Position of Germany in the world Germanys RD
structure and policy development The Hightech
Strategy Internationalization
aspects Germanys EU Council Presidency Outloo
k
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RD financed from abroad In of gross
expenditure on RD (GERD)

Source Eurostat, RD statistics
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Patent applications with foreing co-inventors
of total applications (EPO, 2002)

Source Eurostat, RD statistics
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Foreign students in higher education within
EU-countries Hosted from other countries,
enrolled in other countries, in 2004
students
Source Eurostat, RD statistics
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RD expenditure by foreign affiliates in Germany
(only business sector)
1990 100 30 Mrd US
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Source World Investment Report 2005, UNCTAD
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Internationalization of Science and
Research goals and benefits
Use the opportunities of european and worldwide
cooperation networks
new impetus for the development of science
Optimization of innovation process
Effective solution of global problems
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Position of Germany in the world Germanys RD
structure and policy development The Hightech
Strategy Internationalization
aspects Germanys EU Council Presidency Outloo
k
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Future of the EU
LisbonStrategy
Research Support
EU Budgets(2008)
Fields ofAction
3 target
ERA
FP7
German Initiatives
Legislative Measures
Adoption
Lasting impact of German Council Presidency on
long-term development of EU research budget
Launch FP7
ERC
Constitutional Process
Security Research
Presidency Activities
INCO
Cultural Identity
Art. 171
EIT
Art. 169
Modern BasicResearch
Young Researchers
Responsible Science
Infrastructures
IPR Charter
StructuralFunds
Gender Equality
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• Basic research as a basis for innovations
• Paradigm shift from industrial research to basic
  research at EU level
• Instrument European Research Council (ERC)
• Events
• First official meeting of the ERC-Scientific
  Council, Berlin, 26/27 February 2007
• ERC launch event, Berlin, 27/28 February 2007
• Informal Council, Würzburg, 26-28 April 2007

• Young researchers
• An additional 700,000 researchers needed in
  Europe
• Problem Underfinanced, lack of mobility and
  transfer opportunities
• Establishment of optimised structures for
  researchers Events
• European Researchers of Tomorrow Crossing the
  Borders of Academia and Industry, Stuttgart,
  14/15 May 2007
• Gender Issues in Research Innovation through
  equality of opportunity, Berlin, 18/19 April 2007

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• Infrastructures
• New research infrastructures
• (beside large facilities in physics biology,
  medicine, humanities and social sciences)
• Events
• European Conference on Research Infrastructures -
  ECRI, Hamburg, 5/6 June 2007

• Structural funds for RD
• Goal Practical guide for cumulative use of money
  from structural funds
• CREST working groupHow to make better use of
  Structural Funds to support RD

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• Intellectual Property
• Improved management of intellectual property
  rights
• Initiative for a Charter (IPR Charter)
• Events
• Launch Conference RFP 7, Bonn, 15/16 January 2007
• Informal Council, Würzburg, 26-28 April 2007
• EARTO Conference, Munich, 3/4 May 2007

• Responsible Science
• Agreement on common criteria for responsible
  research
• Event
• Science and its publics", 24/25 June 2007

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• Cultural Identity
• Research contribution towards reviving the
  dialogue on the European Constitution
• Events
• Events to celebrate the Treaties of Rome
  Establishing the European Communities, 25 March
  2007
• "The Spirit of Europe Plurality, Identities,
  Interdependencies", Leipzig, 6-10 June 2007

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Position of Germany in the world Germanys RD
structure and policy development The Hightech
Strategy Internationalization
aspects Germanys EU Council Presidency Outloo
k
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Where do we stand? Current forms of international
cooperation do not make full use of its
possibilities and opportunities
global strategic partnerships/networks
joint research facilities
Current significance in public research
degree of networking
joint projects
Exchange of Scientists
Information exchange
intensity of cooperation
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Where do we want to go? a good example
Inst. of exper.medicine
Bio Turku
TartuBiopark
Univ.Kalmar,Göteborg
BioMedical Research C.
Institute of Biotech
BioConValley
Center ofTech. Transfer
A world competence region in life science The
ScanBalt Bio Region
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If you want to know moreServices and
Counselling Online

• University guides, studying and research in
  Germany,
• grants/scholarships, living in Germany, news,
  FAQs, links etc.
• www.daad.de
• www.campus-germany.de
• University addresses,
• degree programmes, doctorates etc.
• www.higher-education-compass.de
• Science and research in Germany
• www.bmbf.de
• www.research-in-germany.de
• www.kompetenznetze.de
• Student affairs, service packages
• www.student-affairs.de

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