What we do
Technopolis provides high quality, practical, knowledge-based research, advice and management support services to policy makers and organisations responsible for putting policy into practice.
We focus on science, technology and innovation and policies for economic and social development. We support the entire policy development and implementation cycle from concepts through policy development and programme design, management and evaluation as well as the development of governance and institutions.
The common thread in our activities is that we work with the creation of knowledge and its practical application in society.
The Technopolis group is a European organisation with a staff of over 70. We are based in Amsterdam, Ankara, Brighton, Brussels, Paris, Stockholm, Tallinn and Vienna. We work in multi-country and multidisciplinary teams. We have working experience of some 35 countries. As a result, we bring an international perspective to all our projects
We are a leading international evaluation practitioner, with especially strong skills in research, development and innovation. We aim to connect evaluation with strategy and process improvement - implementing lessons from evaluation in practice and helping to apply them.
We use a wide range of quantitative and qualitative evaluation tools, some of which we have developed. We not only practise but also teach and publish on evaluation.
We provide a wide range of strategic studies and advice to regional, national and international governmental organisations. Our experience includes strategic studies; inventories and benchmarks of innovation and research policies, background studies for the design of new programmes, studies into new trends in RTDI policy or support to the writing of national and regional White Papers.
Additionally, we help policy development and planning by supporting Foresight and Road Mapping exercises that explicitly try to analyse potential futures as a way to understand policy needs. We were involved in Foresight activities in various countries. Road mapping is becoming increasingly important in areas where technological trajectories can be defined
There is more to innovation than research and technology. Increasing companies' ability to innovate is an important policy objective in most countries. While support programmes for larger enterprises tend to focus on aspects of creating and using technology, those for SMEs cover many more topics, ranging from basic business planning and marketing to new product introduction, organisational development, financing and 'soft technologies' such as continuous improvement. SME and business support is central to many of the projects we undertake in regional development.
Our capability is deep and extends to all parts of the innovation mix.
