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EURAB Working Group 4 “RTOs and ERA”

EURAB Working Group 4 “RTOs and ERA”. Christopher John Hull Advisor, Deputy Secretary General EARTO. EURAB. High-level advisory group to European Research Commissioner Janez Poto č nik on European RTD issues 45 distinguished members 4 nominated by EARTO

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EURAB Working Group 4 “RTOs and ERA”

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  1. EURAB Working Group 4“RTOs and ERA” Christopher John Hull Advisor, Deputy Secretary General EARTO

  2. EURAB • High-level advisory group to European Research Commissioner Janez Potočnik on European RTD issues • 45 distinguished members • 4 nominated by EARTO • Wide-ranging agenda, freedom to raise issues • SMEs • Raising regional innovation potential • Role of universities • Boosting private R&D investment • Assessment FP6 • Recommendations FP7 • RTOs

  3. WG4: “RTOs and ERA” • Objectives • Raise the profile of RTOs among high-level policy makers • Ensure ERA and FP policy instruments better adapated to the needs of RTOs • Members • Jean-François Minster (former CEO, IFREMER – Director of Science Strategy, CNRS) - Chairman • Catherine Cesarsky (Director General, ESO) • Jan Dekker (former President, EARTO – President, KIVI) • Helena Illnerova (President, Academy of Science, Czech Republic) • Tomasz Kosmider (President, TPC) • Norbert Kroo (Secretary General, Hungarian Academy of Science) • Pedro Matias (Director International Relations, INETI) • Renato Ugo (President, AIRI)

  4. WG4: “RTOs and ERA” • Arguments • Effective research and innovation systems need a mix of complementary actors • Enterprises, universities, RTOs • RTOs are distinctive, mission-oriented, key functions • RTOs address actual or potential market and systemic failures • RTOs perform • 40% plus of publicly funded R&D in the EU • 14% plus of all R&D • RTOs could contribute more to ERA if European policy better adapted • RTOs lack visibility

  5. WG4: “RTOs and ERA” • Recommendations • Raise profile of RTOs through two policy conferences • Distinctive role of RTOs in ERA (EU Presidency event) • RTOs and universities (“open innovation”) • ERA and FP instruments should better address RTOs as holistic mission-oriented organisations, e.g. ERA-NET, Infrastructures • “RTO Observatory” in DG Research • Improved governance of public-mission RTOs • “arms-length” governance, management autonomy • Financial stability, medium-term rolling budgets

  6. WG4: “RTOs and ERA” • Publication • December, 2005 • Results so far • Invitation from DG Research to EARTO for regular exchange of views (cf proposal for an “RTO Observatory”) • High level • Six-monthly • Current and strategic matters • Discussions underway to organise 2007 EARTO Annual Conference, under patronage of German EU Presidency, on “Research and Technology Organisations in a Rapidly Changing World: ERA, Globalisation, Open Innovation” (cf proposed policy conferences) http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/eurab/index_en.html

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