Strategic Studies
We provide a wide range of strategic studies and advice to
regional, national and international governmental organisations.
Examples of types of strategic studies we have conducted are
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. In addition to strategic
studies of various sorts, 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.
Examples of such studies are:
- Monitoring research and innovation policies: TrendChart and ERAWATCH
- Building
Nordic Strength Through More Open R&D Funding: The Next
Step in NORIA
(PDF, 1Mb) - Future
Universities - Four Case Studies in University Modernisation:
KU Leuven, Twente, Manchester and Loughborough
(PDF, 1.5Mb) - Strategic
Evaluation on Innovation and the knowledge based economy
in relation to the Structural and Cohesion Funds, for the
programming period 2007-2013
(External website link) - Life
Science – Standort Wien im Vergleich (German)
(PDF, 1.1Mb) - Review
of opportunities to improve support for UK international
engagement in science and innovation
(ZIP File, 1.8Mb) - Review
of TechProgramme projects
(PDF, 2.3Mb) - Hot Spots: Survey of regional innovation policy
- Thematic Strategy on the Prevention and Recycling of Waste (TSPRW)
- EZ-Jet:
International level playing field in aerospace sector
(ZIP File, 1.6Mb) - Policy Instruments for Sustainable Innovations (VROM)
- Positioning
of the RNRT (the French telecommunication research network)
in comparison with European telecommunication "Road
Maps" (French)
(PDF, 268Kb) - Effectiveness
of technology roadmapping
(PDF, 868Kb)
