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IKD Project Report 3

Regional Innovation and Research Policy Outlook: Policy Practices in Eight European Regions

Papaioannou et al
2008

Summary
Findings and statements in the book are the results of interactive consultations within the ProAct consortium. Experts from eight countries - Austria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia and the United Kingdom - joined forces to look for efficient innovation and research policy practices in eight regions of the European Union. The consultations clarified that regional policy practices in very different regions could be analysed and addressed from three different aspects. These practices also form a policy learning cycle, which shows the possibility to recognise and learn from 'good practices'. The elements of this cycle are: the practices of strategy formation; the practices of strategy implementation and policy flexibility; the practices at programme / project level.

IKD Project Report 2

The RECORD Experimental Map: Innovative Research Organisations in European Accession Countries

Papaioannou et al
2005

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Summary
The Experimental Map is the first application of the methods in the Manual and as such it is a unique and experimental attempt to find a common basis for the international comparison of the innovation practice in RTDI organisations in the Accession States as well as to present some spatial characteristics. To this end first we surveyed some research institutions that were considered innovative and for which there was an expectation of successful integration in the European Research Area (ERA). Then the network elaborated in-depth case studies of a selected sample of these centres. In this publication we would like to present in detail some of those RTDI institutions, whose contribution was indispensable in finding the RECORD benchmarks of innovative institutional performance and practice.

IKD Project Report 1

The RECORD Manual: Benchmarking Innovative Research Organizations in European Accession Countries

Papaioannou et al
2004

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Summary
This Manual - together with the Experimental Map - is the final publication of the RECORD network. The main objective of RECORD was to assist in learning the practice of benchmarking RTDI (research, technological development and innovation) organisations. Initially the network selected some Accession States research organisations that were considered innovative and for which there was an expectation of successful integration in the ERA (European Research Area). A relatively simple method was developed to describe the innovative performance of these institutions, termed the 'RECORD Centres of Excellence'. The network then carefully surveyed a selected sample of these centres in search of good practice and the potential for up-grading their performance.