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February 2016
Social Network Analysis. Introduction to methods and applications to the EUPRO database
This course aims at providing participants with an introduction to different methods of Social Network Analysis and give them the tools to apply the method to their work. The goal is to provide the participants with an understanding of the potential applicability of these methods to different types of networks and to various research questions.
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Applications of Panel Data Analysis: research on firm performance, entrepreneurial finance and innovation
This course focuses on the application of econometric techniques for panel data analysis and the interpretation of panel-data regression estimates. The course will introduce the properties of regression models in the context of panel data, including 'fixed' effect, 'random' effects, instrumental variables and generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation methods.
Find out more »July 2016
RISIS Geo Summer School. Geocoding and clustering of large ST&I corpuses
The summer school aims at equipping participants with knowledge and tools and at enabling them to geocode and cluster the geographic data associated to their own datasets. It addresses a growing question in knowledge dynamics about agglomeration processes in science technology and innovation dynamics.
Find out more »September 2016
Analysing global R&D trends combining patent and publication information
This course aims at providing an introduction to publication (Web of Science) and patent (Patstat) databases and their combined use as a source for conducting researches to investigate the trends of R&D in large firms, research organisations, universities, territories, etc.
Find out more »November 2016
RISIS Developer Hackathon, Nov 28-30, Amsterdam
On November 28th, RISIS technical team will come together in Amsterdam to take part in a 3-day hackathon. RISIS developers from SMS, Cortext and ACP platforms will work together to address the challenges on the way of realizing RISIS Integrated platform. The hackathon will be held in…
Find out more »January 2017
RISIS Annual Week 2017, Vienna
Programme of the RISIS WEEK 2017 Monday 23 Afternoon Plenary (13.30 - 16.30) Ring Stage – 7th floor 13.30-13.45 Welcome (Thomas Scherngell and Matthias Weber) 13.45-15.00 Overview of the project progress and infrastructure (Philippe Laredo and Peter van den Besselaar) 15.00-15.30 Coffee break 15.30-16.30 Demonstration of SIPER (Paul Cunningham et al.) Tuesday 24 Morning…
Find out more »March 2017
Linked data for science and innovation studies
The aim of the course is that researchers firstly become aware of the potential benefits of Linked Open data – using (science and innovation studies) field specific examples, secondly to provide knowledge and skills to formulate the relevant questions related to data integration, and thirdly to introduce methods and tools for data linking, and for exploring, analyzing and visualizing linked data, as embedded in the Semantically Mapping Science (SMS) platform.
Find out more »May 2017
Using the CorTexT-Risis Platform for Research in Science-Policy-Studies and Science-Technology-Studies
The objective of the course is to introduce participants to the uses of the RISIS.CorTexT platform, a research facility in S&T Studies proposed under the RISIS Infrastructure Project. Thanks to short lectures, demos, workshop and practical training participants should get enough skills to develop research work on various types of Data Base that trace science and innovation dynamics. Existing RISIS databases will be mobilized (like Patstat, Web of Science, Corporate Invention Board, EUPRO and others) and possibly other datasets that participants could bring.
Find out more »Exploring JoREP 2.0: features and potential uses in the studies on Europeanisation of research activities
The course aims at introducing JoREP 2.0 database, presenting the new features, highlighting the specific contents and framing its potential uses in the context of the theoretical background on which has been designed. It will also train to address research questions on joint programming within the ERA using the infrastructure.
Find out more »June 2017
Analysing global R&D trends combining patent and publication information (2nd edition)
This course aims at providing an introduction to publication (Web of Science) and patent (Patstat) databases and their combined use as a source for conducting researches to investigate the trends of R&D in large firms, research organisations, universities, territories, etc. This is the second edition of the course.
Find out more »Universities, research organizations and rankings
This one-day-course will focus on definitions and data collection procedures for the universities that appear in the Leiden Ranking. We will discuss the challenge of identifying universities from author affiliations in scientific publications comparing alternative approaches that are offered in different bibliographic databases.
Find out more »September 2017
Entrepreneurial finance: theory and practice
This course focuses on the hot topics in the entrepreneurial finance field and provides an overview of the brand new VICO 2.0 data infrastructure.
Find out more »Career Trajectories, Outputs and Success of Doctorate Holders
The overall objective of the Summer School is to support the research into research careers using data sets provided by RISIS. It will provide PhD students with feedback for their dissertation projects, support ongoing research projects on careers (e. g. PhD thesis or postdoc projects) with data, outline suitable data sources and advance the theoretical knowledge via discussions and exchange.
Find out more »November 2017
Introduction to methods and applications to the JoREP/EUPRO database with Network Analysis approaches
A major goal of this course is to introduce participants to novel statistical methods for network analysis. The aim is to provide to the participants with an understanding of the potential applicability of these methods to different types of networks and to various research questions related to the Europeanization processes. RISIS databases involved: JoREP 2.0 and EUPRO.
Find out more »June 2018
Linked Data for Science and Innovation Studies: Using the SMS platform for enriching your research data
The aim of the course is to train researchers to use the SMS (Semantically Mapping Science) platform for integrating, enriching and retrieving data for a specific research project. Participants will come with their own data and go with a specifically enlarged (linked to other SMS datasets) dataset needed for the intended study.
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