Rationale and Lessons (to Be) Learned From the Austrian Presidency Conference on ‘impact of Research and Innovation Policy at the Crossroads of Policy Design, Implementation and Evaluation’
Year: 2019
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: ost impact evaluations of R&I policy interventions focus either on scientific-technical effects or on economic effects.For this purpose, suitable indicators, data bases and methods have been created and continuously developed in recent decades.However, the comprehensibility and assessment of social and societal effects of R&I policy interventions has only recently gained new attention.One reason for this is the orientation of R&I policy towards major societal challenges ('new mission-oriented R&I policy' 1 ).The European Commission's "Horizon Europe", the 9 th European Research and Innovation Framework Program, explicitly provides within the second pillar of the next Framework Program specific R&D missions still to be selected.For these missions as well as for the global challenges postulated in Horizon Europe -as in Horizon 2020 -the social impact dimension is highly relevant as it explicitly addresses the goals set by society (for example, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals / SDGs 2 ).In order to better track and measure the impact dimensions of Horizon Europe, an expert report 3 was presented immediately after the publication of the European Commission's proposal for Horizon Europe in July 2018, which distinguishes between the following three impact dimensions: (1) scientific impact, (2) societal impact and (3) economic impact.Already the year before, an ERAC ad-hoc working group submitted a report 4 that also argues for different dimensions of impact, but focuses on measuring the impact of European framework programs at national level.
Author: Klaus Schuch
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems and Management
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W2950498236