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Programme Tuesday, 23 October 2007
Registration and Welcome Coffee
PLENARY SESSION I
10.30am – 11.00am:
Opening by Frithjof Maennel,
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
11:00am-12.00:
Getting More out of
Public Investment in Innovation Programmes
Evaluation and impact assessment aim at measuring the impact of
innovation programmes, to provide political decision makers and
programme agencies with the information they need to tune programmes
for maximum innovation impact for each Euro invested. This session
provides a broad overview of the current discussion, including findings
and experiences from across Europe and beyond.
Dominique
Foray, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,
Switzerland
R&D Policy of
knowledge creation and growth
Bart
Nooteboom, Tilburg University, The
Netherlands
Measurement of
Innovation
Dirk
Pilat, OECD, France
Impact Assessment from
OECD Perspective
Nicolas S. Vonortas, George Washington University, USA
and Athens University of Economic and
Business, Greece
Wolfgang
Polt, Joanneum Research
Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Austria
How much
Innovation can you get out of R&D Programmes?
Moderation: Christopher John
Hull, Secretary General EARTO, Belgium
12.00am – 1.30pm:
Lunch Break
1.30pm – 3.00pm: PARALLEL STRANDS
There is a broad range of
methodologies to assess the impact of innovation programmes. These
methodologies can be pragmatic or sophisticated; the concepts can be
executed ex-ante, concurrent or ex-post. Further they can be performed
on either single projects, on the level of single programmes or as
meta-evaluation covering the entire research framework. The speakers
will give an overview of the present state of the art across innovation
programmes at national and European level.
Terttu
Luukkonen, The Research Institute of the
Finnish Economy, Finland
Methodologies
for Impact Assessment – An Overview
Irwin
Feller,
Pennsylvania State University, USA
Choosing Methods for
Evaluation and Impact Assessment
Philip
Esler, Arts and Humanities
Research Council, UK
Assessing the Impact of
Basic Research – Experiences from the UK
Moderation: Adriano De
Maio,
Regione Lombardia,
Italy
Rapporteur: Jacques van der
Meer, European Investment Bank, Luxembourg
STRAND 2: Impact of FP Projects on
Innovation
The most fundamental level to observe impacts on innovation
is the individual R&D project itself. The structure of the project
consortium will have an influence on the future exploitation of project
results. Management techniques throughout the project life cycle will
determine the probability of industrial innovation impacts. Beside
these factors immanent to the consortium, micro-economic environment
conditions – markets, industry landscapes, technologies – need to be
considered. Thus, this strand will focus on conditions of innovation
impact on project level.
Robbert
Fisher, Intrasoft International
N.V./S.A., Luxembourg
Introducing Inno Impact:
Objectives, Approach, Participants
Characteristics
Yiannis
Spanos, Athens University of
Economics and Business, Greece
Project, Firm, Market
Characteristcs
Luca Alessandro
Remotti, Formit Foundation,
Italy
Case Study
Design, Execution and Results for Innovation Impact
Measurement
Nicholas
S. Vonortas, George Washington
University, USA and Athens
University of Economic and Business, Greece
Main
Conclusions and Policy Implications
Moderation: John
van den Elst, Philips Research, The
Netherlands
Rapporteur: Hans-Peter
Lorenzen, DeGEval, Germany
Public funding of R&D
activities often takes the format of R&D programmes supporting
projects following a long-term strategy. Therefore specialised
organisations have emerged. Concepts for R&D management have been
developed and experiences were made. The relation between programme
design and management on the one hand and innovation impact on the
other hand are in the focus of this strand.
Angus
Hunter,
Optimat Ltd., UK
Programme Objectives and
Strategies
Georg
Licht, ZEW, Germany
Innovation Impacts and
their Link to Programme Management and Design
Wolfgang
Polt, Joanneum Research
Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Austria
Perspectives of Policy
Makers and Programme Managers
Ken
Guy, WiseGuys Ltd., UK
Challenges for Policy
and Scope for International Cooperation
Moderation: Wolfgang
Gessner, VDI/VDE-IT, Germany
Rapporteur: Mario
Cervantes, OECD, France
3.00pm – 4.15pm:
Coffee Break and Short Open Space Presentations of PRO INNO
Europe Projects
Moderation: Paula
Galvão, inovamais, Portugal
PLENARY SESSION II
4.15pm – 5.00pm:
Measuring Innovation – A Bold Venture or a Critical Endeavour? (Round
Table)
Jacques van der
Meer, European Investment
Bank, Luxembourg (rapporteur
strand 1)
Hans-Peter
Lorenzen, DeGEval, Germany (rapporteur strand
2)
Mario
Cervantes, OECD, France (rapporteur strand
3)
Moderation: Christopher John Hull, Secretary General EARTO, Belgium
5.30pm – 7.00pm:
Guided Transfer to Wannsee
7.00pm – 10.00pm:
Cast off! Dinner on the River Boat
10:30pm:
Transfer to Berlin City
