IntelComp is an AI-powered Cloud Platform for Public Administration in the field of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) policy. Policy stakeholders are also targeted including Industry, Academia and citizens to ensure the principle of policy “co-creation”. IntelComp provides AI-tools to assist in "data-driven" and "evidence based" policy making along the policy cycle: agenda setting, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. Based on knowledge extraction from large data sources, the IntelComp Platform is a High-Performance Computing platform and compatible with the European Open Science Infrastructure (OpenAire) and the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
"Fostering R&I across the EU" is the most important policy challenge for 97% of respondents to the cluster-based public consultation on EU funds in the area of investment, research & innovation, SMEs and single market”.
"About two-thirds of Europe's economic growth over the last decades has been driven by R&I. R&I supports the creation of new and better jobs and the development of knowledge-intensive activities, which account for more than 33% of total employment in Europe (European Commission Working Document, 2018).
Public administrations at all levels, the STI community, local actors, civil society and citizens (EC, National, Regional, Local) produce a great amount of dynamic, multilingual and heterogeneous data. Analyzing this data is crucial for evidence-based policy making. Hence, it demands a series of actions that to-date have been mostly performed using classical statistical approaches. This approach doesn't usually respond to the rapid pace in research and innovation. A need for new dynamic approaches able to analyze data from different sources and discover the underlying semantics would give insights to ground the formulation, implementation and monitoring of STI policies on evidence.
With co-creation and "human-in-the-loop" in the core, IntelComp adopted the Public-Private-People Partnerships living labs approach, engaging public policy makers, industry, academia, SMEs, local actors, civil society and citizens to co-create STI policies as well as to co-create IntelComp tools. IntelComp run 3 pilots targeting domains aligned with the EU Agenda and the HE Missions: Artificial Intelligence, Health (Cancer) and Climate Change.
The project has contributed a series of software applications and methodologies for policy-making using Natural Language Processing/AI:
- The IntelComp Integrated Solution encompasses 6 tools for STI policymaking: STI Dataspace, Interactive Model Trainer, STI Viewer, STI Policy Participation Portal, Evaluation Workbench, and Graph Explorer.
- A very detailed methodology to formulate measurements for STI policy questions at all stages of the policy cycle.
- User-in-the-loop curation and fine-tuning of Machine Learning models to gain the confidence of the final users.
- The co-creation approach for development of user-friendly tools.
