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The Austrian RTD Funding System and the Role of Evaluation

The Austrian RTD Funding System and the Role of Evaluation. Michaela C. Topolnik Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development General Secretariat. OECD, Madrid 3-4 July 2008. The Austrian RTD system Main actors The Austrian Council and its mission

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The Austrian RTD Funding System and the Role of Evaluation

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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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.

  5. The Austrian RDI Funding System IPolicy and Agencies Austrian Science Board CDG, LBG, ….

  6. The Austrian RDI Funding System II

  7. The Austrian RDI Funding System II Agencies Austrian WirtschaftsservicesAWS Austrian Research Promotion Agency FFG Science FundFWF Business development (Innovation) Basic Research Applied Research University–industry cooperation Weitere:Christian Doppler Labors CDG, Ludwig Boltzmanngesellschaft LBG, …

  8. 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.

  9. 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

  10. The Austrian Council`s Mission The 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.

  11. Assessment and allocation The 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.

  12. The Austrian Council and Evaluation • Promotion of evaluation • Asked forregular 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

  13. Evaluation of Austrian Research and Technology Policies

  14. Evaluation of Austrian Research and Technology Policies www.fteval.at

  15. 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)

  16. 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

  17. Contact Michaela C. Topolnik Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development Pestalozzigasse 4/ DG 1 A – 1010 Vienna Tel. +43 (1) 7131414-14 m.topolnik@rat-fte.at www.rat-fte.at

  18. Statistics Austria: RTD expenditures (survey 2004) Quelle: F&E Statistik 2004

  19. Main areas of activity of RDI expenditures Statistics Austria Survey 2004: basic research: 17,8% applied research: 37,8% experimental development: 45,2% source: Statistics Austria 2004 RTD survey

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