International visibility of nordic scientific research and patterns of international collaboration of nordic scientists

Literature-based data provide quantitative indicators of outcomes of scientific research. For decades, publications have been regarded as a useful indicator for assessing the productivity of scientific research, to be complemented with other information and peer judgments. The development of bibliographie information data bases has permitted the generation of indicators to measure further aspects of scientific research such as the impact of a given piece of work on the international research front and scientists' cooperation patterns. This paper presents some data which are obtainable for assessing productivity and international impact of Nordic scientific research and scientists' international collaboration; international collaboration has been measured by the volume of cross-country co-authorship. All data originate from the Science Citation Index (SCI)'

The value added by government venture capital funds compared with independent venture capital funds

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Osaamispääoman hyödyntäminen ja vaikuttavampi julkisten T&K-voimavarojen kohdentaminen

Selvitystyössä tarkastellaan, kuinka tutkimus- ja innovaatiojärjestelmän kokonaisuuden ohjausta voidaan parantaa siten, että tieto ja osaaminen kanavoituvat Suomessa entistä tehokkaammin uusiksi tuotteiksi ja palveluiksi. Tiedolla ja osaamisella viitataan tässä yhteydessä julkisesti rahoitetun T&K-toiminnan piirissä tuotetun osaamispääoman hyödyntämiseen. Selvitystyö perustuu neljälle tutkimuskokonaisuudelle: 1) kuuden maan tutkimus- ja innovaatiopoliittinen vertailu; 2) meta-analyysi viime vuosien merkittävimmistä tutkimus- ja innovaatiojärjestelmän arvioinneista; 3) haastattelu-, kysely- ja dokumentaatioanalyysi tutkimusyhteisöjen osaamispääoman hyödyntämisen seurannan nykykäytännöistä; ja 4) haastattelu ja dokumentaatioanalyysi tutkimus- ja innovaatiojärjestelmän kokonaisohjauksen nykytilasta. Selvitystyön tulosten perusteella kokonaiskoordinaation parantaminen vaatii panostamista kansallisen, jaetun näkemyksen työstämiseen tutkimus- ja innovaatiopolitiikan linjasta sekä sektoriministeriöiden aiempaa laajempaa osallistamista tässä suhteessa. Kansainvälisen kokemuksen perusteella järjestelmätason lukkiutumisten syntyä pitää ehkäistä proaktiviisesti, koska ne vaikuttavat haitallisesti uudistusmahdollisuuksiin. Vaikuttavuuslähtöisen ajattelun legitimiteettiä ja tunnettuutta on syytä parantaa tutkimusmaailmassa, ja erityistä huomiota on kiinnitettävä tutkimuksen edellytyksiin vastata ns. suuriin haasteisiin samoin kuin sitä koskeviin ohjausmenettelyihin

Improving Distributed Intelligence in Complex Innovation Systems

Science and technology (S&T) are considered to be a central source, or at least a basic medium, of societal and industrial innovation, while innovation is conceived to basically feed the regeneration of our welfare. The suppliers of S&T in Europe as well as the users of their „products“, are confronted with a number of challenges today. We want to stress here that it was not the primary goal of our Advanced Science & Technology Policy Planning (ASTPP) Network to come up with proposals how the strategic character of European S&T policies could be strengthened. The ASTPP-network instead focuses on one aspect: the provision of strategic intelligence necessary to identify and develop strategic choices. The underlying hypothesis is that the existing body of experiences with technology foresight, technology assessment and S/T policy evaluation provides a basis for the development of an advanced S&T policy „planning“ approach by trying to enhance, interlink or even integrate the growing, but still dispersed experience in these three areas of intelligence. By „intelligent“ we mean that the inter-relatedness of S&T, industrial efforts, societal needs and political interventions becomes more transparent so that interactive collaboration between them will be facilitated

Improving Distributed Intelligence in Complex Innovation Systems

Science and technology (S&T) are considered to be a central source, or at least a basic medium, of societal and industrial innovation, while innovation is conceived to basically feed the regeneration of our welfare. The suppliers of S&T in Europe as well as the users of their „products“, are confronted with a number of challenges today. We want to stress here that it was not the primary goal of our Advanced Science & Technology Policy Planning (ASTPP) Network to come up with proposals how the strategic character of European S&T policies could be strengthened. The ASTPP-network instead focuses on one aspect: the provision of strategic intelligence necessary to identify and develop strategic choices. The underlying hypothesis is that the existing body of experiences with technology foresight, technology assessment and S/T policy evaluation provides a basis for the development of an advanced S&T policy „planning“ approach by trying to enhance, interlink or even integrate the growing, but still dispersed experience in these three areas of intelligence. By „intelligent“ we mean that the inter-relatedness of S&T, industrial efforts, societal needs and political interventions becomes more transparent so that interactive collaboration between them will be facilitated