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MLE on Ex-post Evaluation of Business R&I Grant Schemes

Research and Innovation (R&I) grants remain one of the cornerstones of governments’ efforts to promote business R&I in Europe. The purpose of this MLE was to facilitate the exchange of views and experiences between volunteering Member States on the evaluation of business R&D grant schemes, taking into account the specific contexts in which these evaluations take place.

PSF Geo coverage
Norway Denmark Germany Spain Sweden
PSF Exercise type
Mutual Learning

Documents

MLE Ex-post evaluation of business R&I grant schemes report

The 'Policy Support Facility' (PSF) was set up by the Directorate-General for Research & Innovation (RTD) of the European Commission under the European Framework Programme for Research and Innovation 'Horizon 2020', in order to support Member States and associated countries in designing, implementing and evaluating reforms of the national science, technology and innovation systems.

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Events

  • Opening workshop

    The day started with a presentation of the PSF and MLE exercise by the EC; thereafter 10 minute-presentations about the national policy challenges by participating countries were held and a state-of-play on the subject matter was discussed. At the end of the workshop a project plan was developed.

    DG RTD building, 21 rue du Champ de Mars, 1050 Ixelles, Brussels European Commission, DG RTD

  • First country visit – How to benefit from evaluating R&D grants/schemes I: Strategic approaches and challenges related to data management

    The morning session was composed of three themes, firstly evaluation as a strategic issue, secondly monitoring – a tool for evaluations and finally why econometrics is important. Thereafter the focus was on how to disentangle the joint effect of different schemes and international dimensions.

    CDTI – centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial, Calle Cid, 4, 28001, Madrid, Spain CDTI

  • Second country visit – How to benefit from evaluating R&D grants/schemes II: Strategic approaches and challenges related to data management

    During the morning session the strategic approach towards the choice of the evaluation framework was presented as well as an introduction to the Danish R&D data infrastructure; later issues concerned with multiple participation, additionally and credibility were discussed.

    Ministry of Higher Education and Research, Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation, DASTI, Bredgade 40, DK-1260 København DASTI

  • Final workshop on Ex-post evaluation of business R&I grant schemes

    The final workshop was used to present results of the MLE participants' survey and as a feedback session on the MLE instrument; the structure of the final report was discussed together with future plans.

    DG RTD, Square Frère Orban, 1040 Etterbeek, Brussels European Commission, DG RTD

  • Dissemination Workshop MLE on Ex-post evaluation of business R&I grant schemes

    Experts and participants discussed their findings. It was recognized that despite differences, many of the challenges are shared. The willingness to maintain this learning community was expressed. A new project-based MLE on business R&D grants evaluation will be launched in the beginning of 2017.

    Brussels, Belgium European Commission, DG RTD