Friday 17th November, 13.30 - 16.00
Chair: Rémi Barré, CNAM, Paris

The PRIME NoE gathers most of the European research teams working on S&T policy, including S&T indicators. Over the last years, several research projects have resulted in the conception and production of indicators characterising the institutional actors of the national innovation systems, in particular universities, research organisations and research funding institutions ; work is being done on firms, including start ups. We have labelled such indicators as ‘positioning indicators’ in the sense that they relate to institutions and help characterise them in terms of their relations and position within the research and innovation systems.
Our point is that such indicators are needed by the actors to develop relevant strategies and that such indicators, although they refer to individual organisations, should be produced in a coordinated way, or at least based on common principles and standards so that they can allow for comparisons and also lower the cost of production. In addition, the ERA demands such common tools.
The problem, thus, is the building of a ‘platform’ ESTIP to realise such coordination and capitalisation, helping produce the positioning indicators, based on the initial work done within PRIME and by some of its members. Clearly, such a platform can only be the result of a cooperative agreement of the various players involved, in particular the national and European statistical offices, the research teams involved, the institutions which will be the users of the indicators and, of course, the decision makers dealing with S&T policy, at national and european level.
Hence the objective of PRIME to produce a ‘position paper’ on this topic by the end of 2006, so that it can be taken into account within FP7 if an agreement can be found.
The last session of the Lugano conference will be the opportunity for the relevant stakeholders to discuss a draft of the position paper on the ESTIP presented by PRIME.

Session programme

13.30 Keynote Speech: S&T Indicators for the European Research Area
Stephan Kuhlmann, ISI Fraunhofer, Karlsruhe

14.15 Indicators in PRIME: future strategies and developments
Rémi Barré, CNAM Paris
Benedetto Lepori, University of Lugano and Observatoire des Sciences et Techniques
ESTIP position paper
ENID initiative

14.45 Comments and reactions from the stakeholders

• Laudeline Auriol, OECD STI Directorate, Paris
• Andrea Bonaccorsi, University of Pisa
• Paul Desruelle, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, European Commission, Sevilla
• Philippe Larédo, PRIME coordinator

15.30 General discussion

16.15 End of the Conference