Siegfried Reich

Forschung Austria Workshop on Indicators and Monitoring

April 27th, 2007

Forschung Austria organised a workshop on assessment and monitoring of RTD programmes in Salzburg, with a focus on “smaller scale programmes”. Participants were from Joanneum Research, Salzburg Research and partly ARC.

Presenters included

• Dr. Alexander Haas from Helmholtz Gesellschaft in Germany
• Dr. Hans-Peter Lüttenberg from Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, in Germany
• Mag. Markus Gruber from Convelop, an RTD consulting company in Austria

What I personally learned at the workshop: Germany invests substantial amounts of resources into non-University R&D, even when size-wise compared to Austria; it is a clever idea to think of exploitation even after the end of a project (DLR does so, for instance, two years later. Great idea!); indicators are truly difficult: even if they have agreed semantics and similar values, the structures behind may still not be comparable.

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