Final Report Summary - SUPPOLICY (Supporting policy making with innovative assessment tools)
The project SUPPOLICY aimed at supporting the sub-national and national research and innovation policy actors by providing a methodology to translate the results produced by innovation assessing tools into concrete policy making decisions. It also aimed to improve the effectiveness of the policy-cycle in order to increase the impact of public interventions through the creation of an effective and coherent national and regional policies framework.
The general objective of the project was to formulate and assess an integrated strategy that allows political decision-makers at sub-national level to create an innovation-oriented environment characterised by a comprehensive methodology, integrated tools and experimented procedures for translating the research and development (R&D) results into applications for the benefit of the economy and the end-users.
This was achieved through:
1. systematic exchanges of information and good practice on existing instruments;
2. identification and analysis of common strategic issues;
3. production of original decision-making models, operational guidelines and standard procedures;
4. implementation of joint transnational policy initiatives in specific technology / innovation areas.
The project had a lot of involvement among partners who wanted to ensure the usability of the paper produced and presented, the model created as part of the project should not only be an academic exercise but a tool for policy makers involved in innovation and research sector. Indeed, with the cooperation of the partners, the consortium decided to proceed with activities not necessarily foreseen during the proposal stage but ended up being helpful for the success of the project.
Feedback received from the final event conference has been positive and also allowed to get some new contact of regions interested in innovation policy sector. The consortium hopes that the outcome of the project could serve to the cause of supporting research and innovation policy among European Regions, mostly for the New Member States, which can take advantage of the work done within these years and which start their activities toward the policy innovation development process.
Due to the specific structure and methodology of the SUPPOLICY project no exploitation of conducted results in terms of producing a new industrial product has been made. Rather, the SUPPOLICY project aims at formulating and assessing an integrated strategy by a comprehensive methodology that allows political decision-makers at sub-national level to create an innovation-oriented environment. So the results of this project are in terms of integrated tools and experimented procedures for translating the R&D results into applications for the benefit of the economy and the end-users.
The general objective of the project was to formulate and assess an integrated strategy that allows political decision-makers at sub-national level to create an innovation-oriented environment characterised by a comprehensive methodology, integrated tools and experimented procedures for translating the research and development (R&D) results into applications for the benefit of the economy and the end-users.
This was achieved through:
1. systematic exchanges of information and good practice on existing instruments;
2. identification and analysis of common strategic issues;
3. production of original decision-making models, operational guidelines and standard procedures;
4. implementation of joint transnational policy initiatives in specific technology / innovation areas.
The project had a lot of involvement among partners who wanted to ensure the usability of the paper produced and presented, the model created as part of the project should not only be an academic exercise but a tool for policy makers involved in innovation and research sector. Indeed, with the cooperation of the partners, the consortium decided to proceed with activities not necessarily foreseen during the proposal stage but ended up being helpful for the success of the project.
Feedback received from the final event conference has been positive and also allowed to get some new contact of regions interested in innovation policy sector. The consortium hopes that the outcome of the project could serve to the cause of supporting research and innovation policy among European Regions, mostly for the New Member States, which can take advantage of the work done within these years and which start their activities toward the policy innovation development process.
Due to the specific structure and methodology of the SUPPOLICY project no exploitation of conducted results in terms of producing a new industrial product has been made. Rather, the SUPPOLICY project aims at formulating and assessing an integrated strategy by a comprehensive methodology that allows political decision-makers at sub-national level to create an innovation-oriented environment. So the results of this project are in terms of integrated tools and experimented procedures for translating the R&D results into applications for the benefit of the economy and the end-users.
