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Which indicators to measure progress? Comment by José Ignacio Alonso

Monday, October 5th, 2009

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 …