Periodic Reporting for period 2 - EURITO (EU Relevant, Inclusive, Timely, Trusted, and Open Research Innovation Indicators)
Période du rapport: 2019-01-01 au 2021-07-31
The data revolution which is transforming economies and societies offers significant opportunities to transform R&I policy with a new generation of more relevant, inclusive and timely indicators than those already available, potentially enabling better decisions with bigger (and better measured) impacts. However, concerns about the representativity, accuracy and inclusiveness of new data sources and methods is slowing down their acceptance. In order to overcome this, the EU Relevant, Inclusive, Timely, Trusted, and Open Research Innovation Indicators, EURITO project brings together a consortium of organisations with expertise in R&I policy, big data analytics and machine learning, and data visualisation with the goal of taking new data sources and methods from the periphery of R&I policy to its core. To achieve this, we are adopting a robust stakeholder engagement processes to discover R&I policy user needs, and turn those into R&I analytics pilot cases which address those needs with Relevant, Inclusive, Trusted and Open indicators. We will then validate these indicators and develop interactive visualisation tools to disseminate findings and encourage further exploration of the data.
A brief overview of the work achieved during the current reporting period includes:
• Scoping Research and Innovation (R&I) policy user needs, through a review of the literature, conceptual development of data audit framework and continual stakeholder engagement.
• Continued identification of candidate areas for ‘RITO’ pilots through the robust knowledge development and engagement of stakeholders.
• Solid development of the project infrastructure to ensure efficient, effective and impact-oriented implementation of the project objectives.