Research Infrastructures

A consortium of Austrian Ministries and the Austrian Chamber of Commerce, led by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research (BMWF), commissioned Technopolis to perform an impact analysis of EU research initiatives on the Austrian research and innovation system as well as an evaluation of the Austrian support structures for the 7th European Framework…

This impact analysis dealt primarily with the impacts of five programmes which VINNOVA and its forerunner Nutek ran (1996–2009) in the area of product manufacture. It comprised five full-scale substudies in the areas of Functional Sales (FS), Free-Form Fabrication (FFF) and a section of the area Industrial IT (IT). The five programmes had a total…