Expert panel of the MLE on National Strategies and Roadmaps for International Cooperation in Research and Innovation.
Research and innovation are increasingly interlinked internationally, aided by rapidly developing information and communication technologies. Global challenges require global effort and dialogue with international partners. In this context, the aim of the MLE is to foster a policy exchange on the various national approaches towards international cooperation in research and innovation.
This MLE aims to support national participation in EU Framework programmes, as well as to exploit synergies in using ESIF at the national level. The Synthetic Synergies Paper documents all aspects of "Synergies" covered in the workshops.
This is the summary report of the Mutual Learning Exercise (MLE) on ‘Widening Participation and Strengthening Synergies’ that was carried out during 2017-2018 by 12 Member States (including one Observer) and one associate country.
This is the final report of the Mutual Learning Exercise (MLE) on 'Innovation Procurement’ which was carried out from January 2017 to May 2018 by 13 EU Member States and two associate countries.
Through public procurement, the public sector is a dominant first-buyer of products and services. Several EU Member States thus use public procurement procedures to accelerate innovation. Yet, for many procuring entities, this aim is not a core priority and thus despite its potential, innovation-related procurement is not yet fully used.
Grants and loans play a vital role in public innovation policy, prompting businesses to spend more on R&D and helping them overcome barriers to innovation such as risk aversion and market failures. With large sums – and even larger outcomes – at stake, R&D policy-makers need robust and reliable information, which demands a lot from evaluation methodologies.
This report has been prepared for a Mutual Learning Exercise on the Evaluation of Business R&D Grant Schemes.
This report summarises the main learnings drawn from the exercise and makes a number of policy recommendations about how and when to design and use PRFS for policymakers and PRFS designers. A longer report is published in parallel with this one, which presents the evidence and analysis underlying this one, together with the lessons and recommendations.
An overview on the MLE on Widening Participation and Strengthening Synergies
The MLE will focus on exchanges of national practice at the operational level in relation to how best to support national participation in EU framework programmes, as well as how best to use ESIF and exploit synergies at the national level to build up a knowledge economy.
