Policy monitoring

For nearly 30 years, the CIFRE programme (Training by research industrial agreements) has offered subsidies to businesses that are established under French Law and which hire PhD students as a part of a research project partnership between the business and a public research facility. The PhD research work undertaken leads to a PhDafter 3 years….

The study aimed to provide a panorama of research programmes, experimental initiatives and stakeholders in the field of agriculture (including horticulture, animal husbandry and organic farming) in Brittany.  The Regional council of Brittany spends about €1.6m per year in the five programmes which are implemented in stations run by various private actors (chambers of agriculture,…

Technopolis is the leading consultancy in Europe when it comes to evaluating, benchmarking and also designing support services and support programmes for SMEs in the field of Industrial and Intellectual Property. Over the last decade, we have been contracted by National Patent Offices (NPOs), the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), the European Patent Office (EPO)…

This project was designed to provide the innovation policy community with statistical and economic analyses that allow the evaluation and the characteristics and performances of national and regional innovation systems. The tasks delivered under this service contract were the continuation of activities under the previous European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) project. Within this framework, Technopolis Group…

For Agency for Innovation through Science and Technology, we have measured the impact of both Enterprise Europe Network services and NCP services in Flanders in terms of activation/ outputs (more R&D; increased insights in possibilities; finding international partners; internationalisation of strategies) and in terms of outcomes (scientific, commercial effects; improved processes or products; business opportunities;…

The Regional Innovation Monitor (RIM) provided policy-makers, other innovation actors and researchers with information on and analysis of the existing innovation policy measures in the EU Member States at a sub-national level (NUTS 1 or 2). The results of these activities were centralised in [output] a repository and disseminated via dedicated Regional pages in DG…

The evaluation of the PNREST had two main goals: – assess theEnvironment & Health  research programme  (PNREST) initiative and its activities during the period 2002-2010 and carry out an in-depth analysis of its governance and operational arrangements and processes (ex post evaluation of the programme); – on the basis of  lessons from the ex post…

This was strategic and foresight study for research and higher education at the horizon 2015-2020 (Lille Region) Technopolis carried out a SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, risks), identified the means of actions at the regional level, and made recommandations to developp a strategy aiming to developp a new positionning at the horizon 2015-2020.