The purpose of the PSF Specific Support to Cyprus is to provide tailored advice and concrete recommendations to the Cyprus authorities for the development of a policy framework and procedures that lift regulatory barriers and provide incentives to optimise the use of publicly funded laboratories by the business community. The recommendations will be used by the Cyprus authorities as a basis for the development of an action plan.
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An overview of the Specific Support to Cyprus.
Following a request from the Cyprus authorities for a PSF Specific Support on the “Optimal Utilisation of Research Laboratories of Organisations funded by the Government, by the Business Community”, an international panel of experts was appointed by the Commission (Directorate-General for Research and Innovation).
The Cypriot Government expressed its interest in a PSF Specific Support activity focused on the optimal use of public research infrastructures and laboratories by the business community.
Expert panel of the Specific Support to Cyprus.
A PSF expert panel has examined how Cyprus’s publicly funded universities and research institutes can increase their engagement with the country’s business community. The panel found that their engagement is, indeed, currently low. The main reason is not an unwillingness to engage but a shortage of firms with sufficient “absorptive capacity” as to be able to benefit from the research, laboratory and consulting services that the universities and research institutes could offer: where there is very little effective demand, developing sustainable supply is practically impossible.
Executive summary in Greek of the Specific Support to Cyprus final report.