THE EUROPEAN LANDSCAPE

Impact Studies and Foresight

The Role of Research Infrastructures for a competitive Knowledge Economy

Workshop, 29-30 June 2009

 

Presentations

1. Overviews

• Building World-class RIs as a source of new companies and jobs, Andres Rodriguez-Pose (LSE)
• Role of research infrastructures for a competitive knowledge economy, Rémi Barré, CNAM University
• Intellectual capital narratives for visualizing the effects of research infrastructures, Christian Nielsen, Aalborg University
• Role of research infrastructures for a competitive knowledge economy, Pierre Valette, European Commission, DG RTD
• Developping methodologies for the impact analysis of research infrastructures on innovation, Peter Elias, University of Warwick
• Lessons learnt from the Evaluation of the pertinence and impact of the Community RI actions, Hervé Péro, European Commission, DG RTD

2. Projects

• ERID-WATCH, the research infrastructures market, Peder Bylander, Almi/Enterprise Europe Network
• European research infrastructures: Technology Transfer and industrial usage – results from ERID-Watch, Katharina Henjes-Kunst, DESY
• The case of the BBMRI economic impact study, Laurent Bach, BETA
• Research infrastructures in the rhythm of BLUES, V. Gracz, Brainlogistics
• RIFI – research infrastructure foresight and impact, Adrian Curaj, Uefiscsu

3. Case studies

• The economic impact of the Synchrotron Radiation Source, Claire Dougan, STFC
• Long-term sustainability of accelerator-driven research infrastructures in the knowledge-based economy, Ute Krell, DESY
• Role of research infrastructures: stimulating public-private investment in and use of RIs: challenges and opportunities, Dominic Clark, EMBL-EBI
• ESFRI research infrastructure innovation cases – instruments, Rok Ursic, Instrumentation Technologies
• ESFRI research infrastructure innovation cases – Synthesys – Bioeconomy, Vanessa Pike, NHM
• GANIL-Spiral2, economic and social impact of large scale facility, S. Gales, Ganil
• ESFRI research infrastructure innovation cases – Experiences from multiphase flow technology that may be useful to ECCSEL, Arne Bredesen, ECCSEL
• ESFRI research infrastructure innovation cases – BBMRI, Kurt Zatloukal, Medial University of Graz

4. Other schemes than RTD

• Risk Sharing Finance Facility, Heinz Olbers, European Investment Bank
• Structuring effects / Added value of the RI actions at European level, Pierre Godin, European Commission, DG REGIO