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• ERA dynamics initiative

  22 février 2011, par Julie

  Origin and development of the initiative
  There were 2 lines of activities : structuration at the European level, and thematic focus. Both were driven by our vision of integration, a still fuzzy concept within EU circles. And all this had to be managed…
  Two of the structural activities have been very successful – training and indicators (see respective sections) – while it became soon clear that a network of excellence was not an adequate institutional setting to nurture ‘fora of strategic (...)

• Forum exploratory project

  22 février 2011, par Julie

  Fora of strategic intelligence : conditions for their emergence – results of the Forum exploratory project
  Two developments had driven PRIME to propose such a direction. On the one hand the 1990s had witnessed multiple developments on participatory technology assessment or more widely participatory engagement and deliberation. The assessment made of such developments (see the ASSESS ST GOV workshop and review report, 2004) concluded that there was a dual need to better conceptualise the (...)

• ERISP

  22 février 2011, par Julie

  From Regional Innovation Systems to Regional research and innovation policies : the ERISP exploration
  ERISP was a second round of reflection when colleagues demonstrated that nearly all work on regional dimensions dealt with systems, milieus and clusters, and did not address policy as such, simply seen as national policy writ small (see 2006 ERA Spaces reports, see also presentations and sessions at PRIME Paris and Pisa conferences, see the specific workshop in Bilbao, 2007). Support was (...)

• Africa Prime

  22 février 2011, par Julie

  Knowledge and development of African countries : Africa Prime
  This project aimed to look at research and innovation systems in/of developing countries without the common bias of defining weaknesses in terms of the differences with what developed countries (TRIAD countries) do and can do.
  Undeniably, there are weaknesses (cf. also the appendix to the technical annex with an overview of African countries), but these should be seen as aspects of the own trajectory of the countries.
  The (...)

• General presentation

  17 février 2011, par Julie

  The substantive issues mentioned above about the content and direction of R&I policies take place in a fast changing environment which challenges the implicit assimilation of public intervention with the national state, made by all theories on research and innovation. We were witnessing an important decentralisation movement which tended to generalise the exceptional situation of Germany. This movement saw regions (or their equivalents : lander, autonomous communities…) invest into (...)

• Innomil

  17 février 2011, par Julie

  The role of defence R&D in innovation systems : Innomil exploration
  The work by Bonaccorsi on search regimes and the existence of simultaneous different knowledge dynamics converged with work on technological systems or sectoral systems of innovation reasoning drove to consider the existence of different sectoral dynamics. It was not the intention of PRIME to support sector focus developments. What was at stake was to see how R&I policies could take into account the simultaneous (...)

• EPOM

  17 février 2011, par Julie

  Evolving policy mixes and the EPOM exploration
  We had high expectations on the issue of policy mixes, one of the 6 priority lines identified on evolving rationales for public intervention, especially following the preparatory events that took place at SPRU (see Prime TN final report). There we hypothesised that our view of normative rationales based mostly on economic theory did not capture the de facto dynamics of policy making. Collaborative research programmes was a case in point where (...)

• Globpol

  17 février 2011, par Julie

  Globalisation of firm RDI activities on innovation policies : the Globpol exploration
  This line of activity did not deal with the globalisation per se of firm RDI but considered the implications of the globalisation of firm RDI for innovation policies. Our choice was to push colleagues inquire such connections through a first exploration. This gave rise to a wide conference (2005) largely exploited in the later special issue of the Journal of Technology Transfer (2008, vol 33, n°4, guest (...)

• CIPR

  17 février 2011, par Julie

  Knowledge circulation and the role of IPR : results from the CIPR exploration
  A review of the wealth of on-going work on IPR identified collective dimensions in IPR as a major still underexplored issue, at a time where nelson was publishing his famous article on scientific commons. This also took into consideration the emergence of targeted settings in connection with EPO, in particular the EPIP project and then association (see for instance its 2010 annual conference). Our analysis was (...)

• General presentation

  17 février 2011, par Julie

  The classical rationale for public intervention has been based upon the famous works by Nelson and Arrow. It drove to recognise that apart from satisfying the research needs of its public missions (so called mission oriented research), the two central reasons were associated to ‘science as a public good’ (requiring the State to fund ‘fundamental’ research) and to ‘market failures’. Evolutionary economics has added the notion of ‘system failures’ while its policy uptake and its inscription into (...)

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