European Commission
EUROPEAN RESEARCH ERA

José Ignacio Alonso

 Discussant session 1.8

1. Introduction

Science, technology and innovation systems are complex and extremely heterogeneous. Thus, its monitoring and governance are a grand challenge. In this context, the objective is to monitor the building process of European Research Area (ERA) and that it becomes the motor of a competitive Europe in a globalised world. However, the need to monitor this process passing through the definition of a set of indicators and find a model or framework that allows a representation of reality to …

Maria Anvret
Discussant session 1.8
 
Progress needs to be measured in order to strengthen Europe’s competitiveness. Indicators are applied in the measuring process. The quality of those indicators are critical, because the outcome of the assessment will be quoted at different forum.
 
Indicators should be realistic …

Heike Belitz
Discussant session 1.8
 

I. Reduced set of ERA Headline Indicators versus a Composite Indicator
 
The group’s mission was to define indicators which allow a monitoring of the progress toward the ERA (“ERA making”) and an assessment the efficiency of …

Terttu Luukkonen
Discussant session 1.8
 
 

The Report of the Expert Group “ERA Indicators and ERA Monitoring” provides the basis for discussion in this session. This expert group has had a challenging task, not only because the question of suitable indicators to measure progress in ERA is a new task, but also because the concept of ERA is not straightforward. ERA is at the same time a tool to …

Rémi Barré
Main speaker session 1.8
 
This document is the draft executive summary of a report which will be further adapted taking into consideration ongoing policy discussions. It will be finalised the 15 October 2009 in order to take into account feedback of CREST from presentations made at a specific workshop on 14 September, at the full CREST meeting on 29 September 2009 and from …