TY - BOOK
T1 - Roles, effectiveness, and impact of VTT
T2 - Towards broad-based impact monitoring of a research and technology organisation
AU - Loikkanen, Torsti
AU - Rilla, Nina
AU - Deschryvere, Matthias
AU - Lehenkari, Janne
AU - Oksanen, Juha
AU - Hyvönen, Jukka
AU - van der Have, Robert
AU - Arnold, Erik
N1 - Project code: 80789
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Research and technology organisations (RTOs) are key
players in the national innovation systems of many
industrialised countries and they act as an increasingly
recognized knowledge pool in boosting innovation and
economic development in the European Union. RTOs receive
basic funding for their strategic long-term research and
the development of scientific competence from government.
They also receive state funds for joint research funded
by national agencies and EU Framework Programmes, and
obtain contract research income from private and public
customers. All funding sources are under pressure due to
changes in the national and global economic and
innovation landscape and growing performance,
effectiveness, and impact pressure on research,
technology, and innovation (RTI). In this context, the
aim of this study is to investigate the roles,
legitimacy, and socio-economic impacts of VTT Technical
Research Centre of Finland.
This study has the following objectives: (1) To give a
European and global perspective on the roles, rationale,
and trends of RTOs, in order to out our analysis of VTT
in perspective; (2) in the context of the Finnish
innovation system, to explore the roles through which VTT
enhances innovation performance and generates
socio-economic and ecological impact; (3) to outline a
toolbox of methodologies for exploring VTT's impact; (4)
to carry out a quantitative analysis of innovations in
the SFINNO database concerning VTT's contribution; (5) to
carry out a case-study analysis of seven individual
innovations involving a VTT contribution; and (6) to
assess and make recommendations for topics and
methodologies in VTT's impact studies in the future.
VTT's roles and impact are considered in the context of
major global socio-economic and technological challenges,
and special attention has been paid to VTT's
internationalisation and its roles in enhancing the
innovation performance of small- and medium-sized
companies.
AB - Research and technology organisations (RTOs) are key
players in the national innovation systems of many
industrialised countries and they act as an increasingly
recognized knowledge pool in boosting innovation and
economic development in the European Union. RTOs receive
basic funding for their strategic long-term research and
the development of scientific competence from government.
They also receive state funds for joint research funded
by national agencies and EU Framework Programmes, and
obtain contract research income from private and public
customers. All funding sources are under pressure due to
changes in the national and global economic and
innovation landscape and growing performance,
effectiveness, and impact pressure on research,
technology, and innovation (RTI). In this context, the
aim of this study is to investigate the roles,
legitimacy, and socio-economic impacts of VTT Technical
Research Centre of Finland.
This study has the following objectives: (1) To give a
European and global perspective on the roles, rationale,
and trends of RTOs, in order to out our analysis of VTT
in perspective; (2) in the context of the Finnish
innovation system, to explore the roles through which VTT
enhances innovation performance and generates
socio-economic and ecological impact; (3) to outline a
toolbox of methodologies for exploring VTT's impact; (4)
to carry out a quantitative analysis of innovations in
the SFINNO database concerning VTT's contribution; (5) to
carry out a case-study analysis of seven individual
innovations involving a VTT contribution; and (6) to
assess and make recommendations for topics and
methodologies in VTT's impact studies in the future.
VTT's roles and impact are considered in the context of
major global socio-economic and technological challenges,
and special attention has been paid to VTT's
internationalisation and its roles in enhancing the
innovation performance of small- and medium-sized
companies.
KW - VTT
KW - impact
KW - impact monitoring
KW - RTO
M3 - Report
SN - 978-951-38-8037-8
T3 - VTT Technology
BT - Roles, effectiveness, and impact of VTT
PB - VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
CY - Espoo
ER -