Abstract
The paramount document formulating and compiling Swedish
national research and innovation policy is the
quadrennial research and innovation bill, which has two
main functions. First, it lays out the framework for
investments and priorities for the coming four years. The
second goal is to formulate and codify the analysis of
the state of the Swedish research and innovation system.
The general assessment of the national Swedish research
and innovation system in the 2012 bill highlights the
following structural challenges for the Swedish research
and innovation system: (1) The general level of quality
of Swedish (academic) research is already high but needs
significant improvements to become globally competitive
in coming decades. (2) Interaction between the academic
sector (basic research) and industry (applied research
and development) is generally too low and inefficient,
which shows not least in the suboptimal performance in
commercialization of research results from academia, and
(3) Swedish public research is impressive in its breadth
but needs to improve its specialization and performance
in certain cutting-edge fields, and prioritize more
clearly between focus areas and less important areas.
Governmental policy formulation has been explicit in at
least three consecutive research bills (2004, 2008,
2012), as well as other official documents (e.g. the 2012
National Innovation Strategy) that the public R&D system
is in need of strategic mobilization and purposeful
efforts to enhance the level of interaction between
academia and industry/society to strengthen the
innovativeness of the economy at large. Several specific
policies have also been launched to enable and enforce
strategic mobilization (the Strategic Research Areas and
the recent programs to recruit internationally leading
scientists), to raise overall quality levels (resource
increases) and to facilitate commercialization of
research results (investments in the institute sector and
in innovation offices).
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | FRIENZ, Facilitating Research and Innovation Cooperation between Europe and New Zealand |
| Subtitle of host publication | Compendium of innovation measures and national innovation system profiles |
| Publisher | European Union |
| Pages | 212-267 |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
| MoE publication type | D2 Article in professional manuals or guides or professional information systems or text book material |
Keywords
- innovation measures
- national innovation systems
