The European Research infrastructure for science, technology and innovation policy studies (RISIS2) aims at building a data and services infrastructure supporting the development of a new generation of analyses and indicators. To develop a deeper understanding of knowledge dynamics and policy relevant evidence, the project goes beyond established quantitative indicators, developing positioning indicators, which take into account critical features of knowledge dynamics i.e. the importance of asymmetries in producers, in places and in themes.
RISIS datasets are built keeping information on these three dimensions. To exploit them, new services dealing with actor identification, geographical information and thematic foci are developed, as well as semantic analytical capabilities. This project builds on RISIS1 (2014-18), which has demonstrated the relevance of such an approach and opened access to a first set of databases and services. RISIS2 gathers 19 partners aiming to transform the field of STI studies into an advanced research community. This step change is achieved by: (i) developing an e-infrastructure that supports full virtual transnational access by researchers, (ii) providing a vastly enlarged set of services tailored to field-specific needs (for problem-based integration of datasets, for exploring open data, and for supporting analytical capabilities of researchers), (iii) maintaining datasets dealing with firm innovation capacities, public research developments, R&I outputs and projects, and policy learning, (iv) developing new datasets on 4 key issues for research and policy (social innovation, non-technological innovation, the role of PhDs in society, portfolios of public funding instruments).
As reflected in the strong role of OpenAire in RISIS2, the infrastructure is fully inscribed into the open science movement. It is accompanied by a strong training, dissemination and communication effort to support the important widening of the community we aim at.
Duration
4 years
Keywords
research infrastructure; science, technology and innovation policy studies; knowledge dynamics; open science
Partners
Université Paris-Est Marne-La-Vallée, Austrian Institute of Technology, Politecnico di Milano, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, University of Sheffield, Fraunhofer, University of Manchester, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Joanneum Research, University of Sussex, Deutsches Zentrum für Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsforschung, University of Strathclyde, Sapienza Università di Roma, Nordisk Institutt for Studier av Innovasjon, Forskning og Utdanning, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Samuel Neaman Institute, Technology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Athina-Erevenitiko Kentro Kainotomias STIS Technologies tis Plirofoforias
CWTS Staff
Ed Noijons, Thomas Franssen, Nees Jan van Eck, Alfredo Yegros-Yegros, Clara Calero Medina, Rodrigo Costas, Bijan Ranjbar-sahraei, Inge van der Weijden, Vincent Traag, Josephine Bergmans, Zeynep Anli, Maia Francisco Borruel, Sonia Mena Jara, Andrea Reyes Elizondo