Global societal challenges require global efforts to address them. Research and innovation are increasingly expected
to support such efforts,with limited resources. In this context of high expectations towards R&I, collaboration across
borders, both in performing and in programming, is commonly seen as a way to get more results with the same or
even less resources. Such collaboration across borders at a European or even global scale facesmany challenges. The
role of foresight as a supporting tool for transnational research programming has been analysed in a number of
cases, but evaluation of its added value has to date largely been unexplored. Building on earlier work how to
embed foresight in transnational research programming (TRP), this paper therefore aims to look at how the use
of foresight in TRP can be evaluated, and what lessons can be drawn for its future use in support of TRP. Starting
from the existing knowledge base on foresight evaluation, an evaluation framework for foresight in TRP is proposed,
and tested against the foresight exercise that supported EU Russia S&T collaboration under the FP7 project ERA.Net
RUS. The findings have implications for the role foresight can play in tackling societal challenges and increasing competitiveness
at European and global level.
HAEGEMAN Karel;
SPIESBERGER Manfred;
KONNOLA Totti;
2017-01-24
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
JRC94328
0040-1625,
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162516301615,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC94328,
10.1016/j.techfore.2016.07.017,
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