Issue (WIWE) status: Submitted, Unpublished

Wild Card's progress: Nominated

This Wild Card came from: 
European Research Area (ERA) dimensions

The theme/scheme related to this Wild Card: 
International S&T Cooperation

Likelihood timeframe and scenario features : 
now-2025

Wild Card's description: 

Some EU Member States are nationally and globally focused and not necessarily EU focused in terms of R&D policy. On the other hand we can also see at the moment that the ERA needs a new direction. The current studies and web sites comparing and contrasting policies and instruments will soon have reached a plateau and it is not clear what the next step in developing the ERA could be after the mapping stage has finished. This is a difficult question and this project only touched on such issue. If anything, the analysis here would conclude that it is not possible to pursue all goals all the time and more important to decide what is important and what is less important. There are many conflicting issues within R&D policy and it is not possible to satisfy everyone and everything. In Denmark and the UK they try to get the framework right by talking and involving people but the direction is less important. Trying to make people do things they don’t want to do is not an effective way of making long-term policy work. The national level has, in some cases, not yet fully seen the right incentives to move towards the ERA.