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The Austrian RTD Funding System and the Role of Evaluation

Michaela C. Topolnik

Austrian Council for Research and Technology DevelopmentGeneral Secretariat

OECD, Madrid 3-4 July 2008

Austrian Council 2008, M. TOPOLNIK

• 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


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


Target: 3% of GDP for RTDWhat 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.


The Austrian RDI Funding System IPolicy and Agencies

CDG, LBG, …. ….

Austrian Science Board


The Austrian RDI Funding System II

ParliamentCommittee for

science, industry and economic affairs

FFG

Government

BMF BMWA BMVIT BMBWK

KFI Firms ARC

PolytechnicsTechnology

Centres

othersCD-Lab.

GENAU

ACR

VTÖ

CDG

Competence Centres / Incubators

[colour indicates funding ministry]

SFB, FSB, WK

Int. Mobility

Translational R.

Start, Wittgenst.

Women in S.

Main Thematic Programmes[colour indicates funding ministry]

Technopolis

Po

lic

yA

ge

nc

ies / P

rog

ram

me

sP

erf

orm

ers

Anniversary Fund

ERP Fund

National ResearchFund

fFORTE

FIT-IT

Sustainable D.

ISB, I2, A3

NANO

TAKEOFF, ASAPLISA

AplusB

Kind, Knet

FHplusKplus

prokis

Austrian Science Council

Institutional funding

Bottom-up project funding

ministry represented on the board Programme Management / Financial Execution

Policy adviceCouncil consultative member of the board

L. Boltzmann Soc.

Universities

Academy of S.

protec 2002+ REGplus





FFG

Government

BMF BMWA BMVIT BMBWK

KFI Firms ARC

PolytechnicsTechnology

Centres

othersCD-Lab.

GENAU

ACR

VTÖ

CDG

Competence Centres / Incubators

[colour indicates funding ministry]

SFB, FSB, WK

Int. Mobility

Translational R.

Start, Wittgenst.

Women in S.

Main Thematic Programmes[colour indicates funding ministry]

Technopolis

Po

lic

yA

ge

nc

ies / P

rog

ram

me

sP

erf

orm

ers

Anniversary Fund

ERP Fund

National ResearchFund

fFORTE

FIT-IT

Sustainable D.

ISB, I2, A3

NANO

TAKEOFF, ASAPLISA

AplusB

Kind, Knet

FHplusKplus

prokis

Austrian Science Council

Institutional funding

Bottom-up project funding

ministry represented on the board Programme Management / Financial Execution

Policy advicePolicy adviceCouncil consultative member of the board

L. Boltzmann Soc.

Universities

Academy of S.

protec 2002+ REGplus


The Austrian RDI Funding System II Agencies

Science FundFWF

Basic Research

Austrian Research

Promotion Agency FFG

Applied ResearchUniversity–industry

cooperation

Austrian Wirtschaftsservices

AWSBusiness development

(Innovation)

Weitere:Christian Doppler Labors CDG, Ludwig Boltzmanngesellschaft LBG, …


The Austrian Council

- The Austrian Council was established in September 2000.

- It is an advisory body for the federal government, ministers and provincial

governments in all issues related to RDI.

- It provides systematic, independent and sound advice for the design and

implementation of a future-oriented RTD policy.

- The Council operates as the central hub of the widely spread network of the research

and technology system.

- 2005 the Council published the Strategy 2010.

- Just recently it started a new process aiming at designing a long-term “RTI-Strategy

2020” for Austria until mid 2009.


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


The Austrian Council`s MissionThe 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.


Assessment and allocationThe 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.


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


Evaluation of Austrian Research and Technology Policies


Evaluation of Austrian Research and Technology Policies

Evaluations 1994 - 2006 ~ 120

2003 - 2006 62

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 8

Before 2003 56

www.fteval.at


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

- Projects (agencies; peer review, expert panels)

- Programms and institutions (ministries = programme owners; call for tender,

contracts)

- Now: portfolio / system evaluation (ministries)


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


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]

www.rat-fte.at


Statistics Austria: RTD expenditures (survey 2004)

Quelle: F&E Statistik 2004


Main areas of activity of RDI expenditures

source: Statistics Austria 2004 RTD survey

Statistics Austria Survey 2004:

basic research: 17,8%

applied research: 37,8%

experimental development: 45,2%

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