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Welcome
Welcome to the new website of PRIME.
It has two objectives:
- maintain an open space for researchers in and stakeholders of our epistemic community, studies on policies for research and innovation (SPRI), in paticular the sections dealing with training and conferences.
- provide an overall view of the dynamics and results of a 5-year experience of self-organised community management via the PRIME Network of Excellence: sections on PRIME developments and results, but also the new library that offers a unique access to all ‘products’ linked to PRIME activities.
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News
Preparing for the future (2) : Amsterdam workshop on the creation of a Eu SPRI forum
Following the discussions in Aix (December 2008) a working group was created to consider the need for a follow-up of PRIME. Numerous exchanges have taken place bilaterally beginning of 2009 which ended up in a preliminary text about the lessons learnt, the need for a partial continuation and (...)
Preparing for the future (1) : the official birth of the international association of indicator designers, ENID (Paris, July 2009)
During the last PRIME annual conference in Aix (December 2008), it was acted that the training, conference and workshop activities undertaken under PRIME on indicators would be maintained. And the principle of a new associated was voted. The international association of indicator designers, (...)
EESC-PRIME forum on the future of European research networks (Brussels, 10-11 September 2009), organised by Politecnico de Milano
The final dissemination event of PRIME was developed in partnership with the European Economic and Social Committee Lisbon Strategy Observatory, and organised by the Politecnico di Milano.
The objective was to share with policymakers some of the developments that took place within PRIME (...)
2009 PRIME Doctoral conference (Manchester, June 29-July 2)
We had a very productive doctoral conference in Manchester end of June gathering 32 doctoral students from 13 countries and 19 different institutions. This enabled them to discuss their own work but also reflect inter alia on the role that research and innovation policies can play to address (...)
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Article
Creation of the “European Forum for Studies of Policies for Research and Innovation” (Eu-SPRI Forum)
PRIME was a time-bounded project and an experiment about a collective organisation at the European level. It has generated between a number of active members (see founding members in the box) the will to devise a lasting structure to address three central issues highlighted by this experience.
“European Forum for Studies of Policies for Research and Innovation” (Eu-SPRI Forum)
The Eu-SPRI Forum aims to strengthen the vibrant but dispersed interdisciplinary community of researchers focussing on interdisciplinary dimensions related to policy and governance in the field of knowledge creation and innovation.
On June 8, 2010, in Paris 11 leading institutes in the field of studies of policies for research and innovation have established a new “European Forum for Studies of Policies for Research and Innovation” (Eu-SPRI Forum). The founding members are :
▪ University of Twente, Institute of Innovation and Governance Studies (IGS) ;
▪ Université (...)
