Data availability and comparability at regional level are central challenges in many countries. Being able to feed the RIS3 monitoring system by confronting a variety of regionalised data would be ideal. The challenges for strategy designers and policy managing bodies are numerous in this respect, but there are also many opportunities already available that can be easily implemented. National and regional authorities across Europe have used a rich variety of sophisticated data sources in the strategy formulation phase. Interestingly, this massive data analysis has not been fully carried over to the monitoring mechanisms. Current versions of monitoring mechanisms often lack a comprehensive data basis and show little innovative approaches to data collection, indicators selection and related tools.
In this context, the overall purpose of the NETIM project was to develop efficacious and easy to implement practices for monitoring the delivery of public policies supporting innovation in SMEs. Through its main deliverable, the NETIM Design Options Paper, the Consortium aimed to find an effective mechanism for monitoring policies for innovation and design a tool for systematically collecting information without excessive costs and through easy to implement procedures. The DOP is targeted at organisations such as innovation agencies, regional and national authorities and similar organisations, involved in monitoring and evaluation of public policies for innovation.
NETIM was coordinated by ARTI Puglia, the Apulian Regional Agency for Technology and Innovation (Italy) and implemented together with IFKA, the Public Benefit Non-Profit Ltd. for the Development of Industry (Hungary), and FUNDECYT-PCTEX, the Foundation FUNDECYT Science and Technological Park of Extremadura (Spain).
