Work Package 1: Raise data quality in the STI Policy Compass
•In consultation with participating countries, the project established an agreed base threshold on the data required for each policy initiative.
•The online monitoring tool and 2019 EC-OECD STIP survey were sent to a wider number of respondents.
•A peer review mechanism was established whereby countries comment on one another’s answers to Policy Debate Questions.
•The online survey application tool was launched in October 2018 to support continuous monitoring of countries’ R&I policies.
•The OECD curated the data collected in the 2017 STIP survey and in the monitoring tool.
Work package 2: STI Policy Compass and linked data
•STIP survey data has been linked to relevant publications from the OECD’s iLibrary database, the EC and other organisations.
•European Semester Country Reports, RIO Country Reports, and other EC publications related to R&I that are published in the EUROPA platform (
https://op.europa.eu/(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)) are crawled and linked in STIP Compass.
•Documents are surfaced across several STIP Compass dashboards and through the search interface.
•STIP Compass links and displays periodically released national country data (in the form of twitter and RSS feeds).
•Routines have been put in place to link statistical indicators to the policy data.
Work package 3: Taxonomy development to support data discovery and analysis
•The data model was assessed to identify areas needing adjustment.
•The innovation policy tagging vocabulary has been updated with the latest concepts to reflect the state-of-the-art in R&I policy.
•Statistical indicators were tagged so that they can be linked to the innovation taxonomy and the STIP data model.
Work package 4: Enhance graphical user interfaces of STI Policy Compass
•Country dashboards have been made printable and shareable.
•A new design (more attractive and user-friendly) has been introduced for the policy initiative fiche.
•270 dashboards dedicated to countries’ main funding organisations have been created.
Work package 5: Administer the 2019 EC/OECD STI Policy Survey
•Countries’ feedback was elicited on the questions and design of the 2019 edition of the EC-OECD STIP survey.
•The 2019 edition of the EC-OECD STIP survey has been administered.
•A first round of data curation has checked country responses to “policy debate” questions. A peer-review process was organised whereby survey national contact points could comment on one another’s answers.
Work package 6: Communications and monitoring the state-of-the-art
•The project team organized demonstrations of STIP Compass in Brussels and Paris, discussing with EC and OECD analysts and delegates how it can be used to support their work.
•New technological frontiers have been explored related to digital knowledge management with a view to continuously improving the ways policy data can be sourced, analysed and presented.
Work package 7: Mission-oriented innovation policy in-depth
•A comprehensive conceptual framework has been developed, incorporating the diversity of models for research funding and their main features
•A decision-support tool for the analysis of mission-oriented innovation policies has been launched.
Work package 8: Knowledge transfer policy in-depth
•A detailed taxonomy-ontology has been developed by the OECD-TIP working party around knowledge transfer and co-creation policy practices across OECD countries and beyond.
•A decision-support tool has been launched to provide guidance around knowledge transfer and co-creation, bringing together insights from a wide range of sources.
