Transcript The Austrian RTD Funding System and the Role of Evaluation Michaela C. Topolnik Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development General Secretariat OECD, Madrid 3-4 July 2008 www.rat-fte.at.

The Austrian RTD Funding
System and the Role of
Evaluation
Michaela C. Topolnik
Austrian Council for
Research and Technology Development
General Secretariat
OECD, Madrid 3-4 July 2008
www.rat-fte.at
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The Austrian RTD system
Main actors
The Austrian Council and its mission
Main sources of RTD public funding
Allocation of Resources
Evaluation in the field of RTD in Austria
Special Features and recent activities
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Austria in intl. Comparison – EIS 2007
European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) of EC:
Austria belongs to the group of the innovation followers
Rank 13 global, Rank 8 within the EU
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Target: 3% of GDP for RTD
What Austria has achieved and its target for 2010
35,5% publicly
funded
64,5% privatly
financed
Provided that the trend (recent growth rate of RTD expenditures: +8% in
2007) continues Austria will reach the 3% target in 2012.
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The Austrian RDI Funding System I
Policy and Agencies
Austrian
Science Board
CDG,
LBG, ….
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The Austrian RDI Funding System II
ministry represented on the board
Institutional funding
Council consultative member of the board
Bottom-up project funding
Policy
Agencies / Programmes
Government
BMF
BMWA
BMVIT
BMBWK
Austrian Science Council
National Research
Fund
FFG
Anniversary Fund
CDG
fFORTE
VTÖ
REGplus
LISA
TAKEOFF, ASAP
Int. Mobility
Sustainable D.
Translational R.
NANO
Start, Wittgenst.
Kind, Knet
FIT-IT
Women in S.
AplusB
ISB, I2, A3
GENAU
Kplus
FHplus
prokis
KFI
Technology
Centres
CD-Lab.
SFB, FSB, WK
protec 2002+
ACR
Competence Centres /
Incubators
[colour indicates funding
ministry]
Performers
Programme Management /
Financial Execution
Committee for
science, industry
and economic affairs
Parliament
ERP Fund
Technopolis
Policy advice
Firms
ARC
Universities
Main Thematic Programmes
[colour indicates funding ministry]
Academy of S.
Polytechnics
L. Boltzmann Soc.
others
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The Austrian RDI Funding System II
Agencies
Science Fund
FWF
Austrian Research
Promotion Agency
Austrian
Wirtschaftsservices
FFG
AWS
Basic Research
Applied Research
University–industry
cooperation
Business development
(Innovation)
Weitere:
Christian Doppler Labors CDG,
Ludwig Boltzmanngesellschaft LBG, …
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The Austrian Council
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The Austrian Council was established in September 2000.
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It provides systematic, independent and sound advice for
the design and implementation of a future-oriented RTD
policy.
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The Council operates as the central hub of the widely
spread network of the research and technology system.
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2005 the Council published the Strategy 2010.
It is an advisory body for the federal government, ministers
and provincial governments in all issues related to RDI.
Just recently it started a new process aiming at designing a
long-term “RTI-Strategy 2020” for Austria until mid 2009.
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Austrian Council: Strategy 2010
•Objectives
- Placing Austria among the leading EU-members in RTD
- Strengthening of the competitiveness and dynamics of the
Austrian economy
- Reaching the Barcelona targets
- Further improving the framework conditions for research and
innovation in Austria
•Strategic orientation
- Fostering quality in all fields of research as the basis for
reaching excellence at the top
- Improving the networking and cooperation between science
and economy
- Increasing the effectiveness & efficiency of the funding
system
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The Austrian Council`s Mission
The Council´s tasks are:
- Setting up guidelines and giving recommendations for national
research and technology programs and for promoting RTD
institutions.
- Evaluating and monitoring the implementation of
recommendations and the strategy.
- Making proposals for improving the co-operation between
science and industry.
- Furthermore in 2001 the Council was asked to give advice on
how extra-financial funds for RTD provided by the government
(not Council’s money!) should be allocated.
- 2001 – 2006: 1109 mio. Euro;
- Foundation for RTD: 85 – 125 mio. Euro each year since
2004.
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Assessment and allocation
The Austrian Council asked for
- standardized program descriptions and
- regular reports from the ministries.
Scheme for the assessment of programs and initiatives:
- Clear program description, objectives, indicators, target group /
sector …
- Evaluation concept (project selection process)
- Evaluation plan (program evaluation: ex-ante, interim, ex-post)
- type of funding - instruments (project, network, institution, etc)
Till 2006 the Council decided on the allocation of funding for
programs and initiatives based on this assessment and on
evaluations (if available).
Several times the Council put conditions to implement.
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The Austrian Council and Evaluation
- Promotion of evaluation
- Asked for regular programme evaluation
(evaluation plan!)
- Used evaluation as basis for public funding allocation
- Recommendations on evaluation in general
(2003 and 2006)
- Book „Evaluation of Austrian Research and
Technology Policies” (2007)
- Member of a Platform Research & Technology
Policy Evaluation
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Evaluation of Austrian Research and
Technology Policies
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Evaluation of Austrian Research and
Technology Policies
Evaluations 1994 - 2006
2003 - 2006
~ 120
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Evaluation of Institutions - Overview
17
Ex-Ante Evaluations
3
Mid Term and Real Time Evaluations
20
Ex-post Evaluations
10
Assessment, Policy, Fields & Systems
Evaluation
4
Writing about … Evaluation
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Before 2003
www.fteval.at
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Evaluation at different levels
- Austrian Council: recommendations (2003, 2006),
book, evaluation day
- Platform Research & Technology Policy Evaluation
(platform fteval: 20 institutional members): standards
of evaluation, newsletter, book, web site, workshops /
training
- Evaluation at level of
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Projects (agencies; peer review, expert panels)
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Programms and institutions (ministries = programme
owners; call for tender, contracts)
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Now: portfolio / system evaluation (ministries)
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Austrian Council: RTDI Strategy 2020
(mid 2009)
• Nov. 2007: „Zukunftsdialog Innovation for Austria“ by
Austrian Federal Chancellery
• „Systemevaluierung“ by BMVIT
(portfolio evaluation of governmental RTD Funding)
• “Forschungsdialog“ (research dialog) by BMWF
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Contact
Michaela C. Topolnik
Austrian Council for
Research and Technology Development
Pestalozzigasse 4/ DG 1
A – 1010 Vienna
Tel. +43 (1) 7131414-14
[email protected]
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Statistics Austria: RTD expenditures
(survey 2004)
Quelle: F&E Statistik 2004
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Main areas of activity of RDI expenditures
Statistics Austria Survey 2004:
basic research: 17,8%
applied research: 37,8%
experimental development: 45,2%
source: Statistics Austria 2004 RTD survey
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