WREN Workshop Performance Assessment of Public Research, Technology and Development RTD Programmes

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WREN Workshop Performance Assessment of Public
Research, Technology and Development (RTD)
Programmes

• Peter JohnstonHead, Evaluation and monitoring
• Thursday 17 June 2004

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Key issues Assessing achievements against
objectives and expectations

• Scientific excellence and industrial leadership
  in strategic areas
• Widespread innovation and economic growth
• Social and environmental benefits sustainable
  development

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Clarifying the causality links between RTD
outputs, results and impacts

• From scientific publications to scientific
  leadership and wider dissemination of new
  knowledge, skills and jobs
• From new technology platforms to international
  standards, new markets and social benefits
• From technology breakthroughs to patent
  applications, licences, wider innovation, new
  business opportunities and new jobs

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Understanding the value of social capital and
knowledge networks

• Networking between business and academia
• Networking between large companies and SMEs
• Networking between research disciplines
• Networking between (mobile) researchers

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Networks are essential for creativity and
effective exploitation of knowledge

• Technology development chains are increasingly
  complex No single entity can master the
  complete range of know-how needed to sustain
  leadership in any topic
• We increasingly need a systemic approach to
  Information society developments
• There are growing synergies with other areas
  nano-technologies, biotechnologies etc

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International co-operation and comparability in
RTD evaluation

• In a global knowledge economy, we all benefit
  from more effective public investment in RTD - We
  need
• Better and more coherent data sources
• Consistent indicators of outputs and impact
• New tools Data-mining, logic models, causality
  maps and network analysis tools
• Exchange of experience and good practice
• Peer review and international collaborations