Welcome to the
INNOCULT Project Website
INNOCULT was a comparative study
of policy-styles in RTD policy-making in the EU. In the project, we
looked at the way in which national RTD policies pursue different, and
at times divergent, national RTD strategies. Although the study looked
at RTD policy-making as a whole, the focus of the project was the
strategies for internationalisation and globalisation of scientific and
technological research. In particular, we explored ways in which policy
can enhance opportunities for collaborative RTD projects in and outside
the EU.
The study addressed three fundamental policy related questions:
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To what extent are RTD systems
and policies in Europe converging?
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Do national RTD systems
complement each other or not? Is this complementarity useful for
trans-national RTD collaboration? If not, what measures would
improve co-operation?
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What role does the European
agenda play? How does this agenda and, more specifically, the
Framework Programme influence national RTD policies and institutions?
How do these in turn impact on the European agenda?
In order to answer these questions,
the INNOCULT project considered both structural and socio-cultural
factors that distinguish different national RTD policy regimes.
We chose a broad scope for the study
both in terms of policy-style and geography. The project encompassed
Austria, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden and
the UK. This selection of countries not only covered the major regions
of the EU, it also included representatives of the predominant RTD
management styles (such as tight co-ordination and RTD sector autonomy,
co-operative approaches and more isolated RTD sectors).
The project ran for 27 months
and was co-ordinated by the ICCR.
