The Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth of the National Research Council of Italy (IRCRES CNR) manages JoREP 2.0 database. It stores data on joint R&D programmes, providing a quantitative basis for the monitoring of investments in joint R&D programmes. It also allow understanding and interpreting the strategies adopted by the different actors involved in the programmes in terms of the underlying logics which frame their behaviour. In the course of the RISIS project,…
The Center for Innovation Systems & Policy at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology maintains the EUPRO database, which contains detailed information on research projects funded by the European Union in its Framework Programmes (FPs) for Research and Innovation. In the recent course of the RISIS project, scientists as AIT have expanded and improved EUPRO itself, as well as used EUPRO as a key tool for research. At AIT, we have substantially expanded the…
MORE (Mobility Survey of the Higher Education Sector) is arguably the most comprehensive empirical study of researcher mobility available. The study targets researchers working in different fields at higher education institutes in the EU and associated countries. It provides internationally comparable data on personal characteristics and education, current employment and working conditions, as well as range of measures on international (and sector) mobility, including factors that influence mobility, and effects that can be linked to…
CIB (Corporate Innovation Board) is a database that includes the patent portfolios of the largest corporate R&D investors worldwide (more than 2000 industrial firms from all industrial sectors). One of the strength of this database relates to the fact that it is built using a consolidated perimeter for the firms (based on information from the Orbis financial database, produced by Bureau van Dijk) and thus collects the patent portfolios of all the entities of the…
Over the next two weeks we will be sharing news of the latest developments across the RISIS datasets. From portals that have just recently been launched, to more well established databases, there is much work continuing to improve usability, access and interoperability. If you would like more information on a particular dataset, or on the RISIS project more generally, please do not hesitate to contact us. And don't forget that there is regular training available…
