In the past decade, EU research policy has become more central to the EU's political ambitions and its instruments are expanding in scale and scope. Recently there has been mounting apprehension over the EU's R&D efforts, such as the Framework Programmes, and their adequacies in meeting European...

Public research institutes are undergoing deep transformations everywhere, but the specifics of the changes differ between countries. In this paper we review some of the changes in science and technology policies in Venezuela in the period 1999--2011 and their impact on the main basic science...

This paper addresses the challenges of communicating the results of a strategic foresight exercise which aimed to support decision-makers in their activities, providing for increased confidence and credibility throughout the process. Foresight recommendations are shaped and derived according to...

This paper aims to investigate the patterns of interaction between national and multinational corporations located in Brazil and universities/public research institutes (PRIs) in that country. To this end, we used a database involving 319 questionnaires answered by those responsible either for...

The incorporation of full-time researchers into hospitals has been identified as one of the strategies to bridge the so-called bed--bench gap and foster translational research. This paper explores the extent to which the incorporation of researchers into Spanish public hospitals helped to foster...

Transformations linked to disruptive events are causing a shift in future-oriented technology analysis (FTA) activities from individual large-scale foresight actions to smaller in-house exercises and capacity building. The reasons are manifold relating to the need for an even tighter embedding...