Measuring the integration and coordination dynamics of the European Research Area

This paper is concerned with the reconfiguration of national research and innovation (R&I) systems towards a European Research Area (ERA). We conceptualise R&I activities as either: integrated at European level, coordinated with other European partners or nationally juxtaposed. Such a conceptualisation can be usefully applied to the measurement of progress towards the ERA along the lines of: providing orientation for R&I, programming and funding of R&I, and performing R&I. Based on a newly constructed set of indicators, and using purpose-collected budgetary data from major pan-European R&D initiatives and other R&D statistics, we apply this framework empirically to the process of Europeanisation of publicly funded R&I. Our estimates show that Europeanisation of R&I has increased substantially over the past ten years. Europe has entered a new phase of Europeanisation of R&I, a phase that opens up the opportunity to achieve a further intensification of Europeanised R&I.

BARRÉ Remi;  HENRIQUES Luisa Maria;  PONTIKAKIS Dimitrios;  WEBER K. Matthias; 

2014-01-23

BEECH TREE PUBLISHING

JRC77833

0302-3427,   

http://spp.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/10/23/scipol.scs080,    https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC77833,   

10.1093/scipol/scs080,