Support to university patent ownership is a popular R&D policy initiative to promote effective knowledge sharing. However, tentative results illustrate that the risk of negative consequences exists.
This report characterises the participation of top research universities in the Sixth European Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP6) using bibliometric indicators.
Using data from FP6, this report provides a description of the main observable patterns in the budget allocation to university-industry cooperation (UIC) projects versus other forms of collaboration.
The EU 2020 strategy relies on innovation as the core driver of economic dynamics. The present Forum discusses the strategies established by the European Commission and the member states for the...
The Foresight wave is growing. Interest in using Foresight exercises to inform policy-making in science, technology, and innovation (STI) is continuing to extend around the world. It now seems s...
This book highlights the interaction between science and politics and between research in economics and European Union policy-making. It focuses on the use of Quantitative tools, Top-down and Bo...