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Basic vs. applied research: Potentials unused?

Along with the increasing popularity of the technology debate in Austria during the last years and after numerous discussions with ICT researchers in the Centrope countries I realised that there is a striking resemblance in their complaints, although the statements themselves express the respective opposite. See also http://noweurope.com/2009/09/08/barriers-cooperation/#more-1293 by Vlastimil.

Simply speaking, the Austrians complain that there’s not enough money for basic research as all goes to applied research, whereas the Czech and Slovak Republics as well as Hungary (representing the situation in virtually all new EU member states and beyond) complain that universities concentrate too much on basic research and do not understand the importance of applied research. Continue reading ‘Basic vs. applied research: Potentials unused?’

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Brain Drain: The Austrians have suffered and learned

Published on August 29, 2008 in Austria. 1 Comment Tags: academic institutions, applied scientific research, attracting money, Austria, bioinformatics, brain drain, central europe, competitiveness, cooperative research projects, Hungary, public investment, public private partnerships, research and development, Venture capital, vienna.

Encouraged by recent postings and an interesting article from Romania from 2006 http://mises.org/story/2371 I want to join the brain drain debate.

Austria has been suffering from brain drain during the entire 2^nd half of the 20^th century but has recently introduced measures to get good people back: An organisation called BrainPower www.brainpower-austria.at, a department of Austria’s research funding and promotion agency FFG www.ffg.at is offering support for researchers who are interested in getting back to Austria (jobs, accommodation, travel costs, information etc.). They work closely together with an organisation called ASCINA, Austrian Scientists and Scholars in North America, an initiative of the Office of Science and Technology (OST) at the Austrian Embassy in Washington D.C. www.ascina.at, this, because a major part of the brains that emigrated have drained to North America.

Networking plus practical support obviously help, as their statistics show, but the best proof for real breakthroughs is “give them appropriate playgrounds, and they come back themselves”.

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Vienna, Austria – A Spot of Excellence

Published on August 21, 2008 in Austria and Business innovation. 5 Comments Tags: applied scientific research, Austria, vienna, vienna business agency, vienna it enterprises.

Today I would like to present you one Viennese research institution and one company (Competence Center) successfully involved in R&D-activities. Both of them are quite important for our city.

These two organizations have an excellent international reputation and both of them are running successful cross-border projects and have finalized some very interesting ones in the past.

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Improving the competitiveness of the European ICT sector: high level European workshop on good public national and regional policies

Published on November 14, 2004 in Current events, eCommerce and Innovation policy. 0 Comments Tags: applied scientific research, benchmarking study, competitiveness, enterprise directorate general, european commission, fraunhofer institute, innovation research, netherlands organisation, policy recommendations, productivity growth, regional policies, strategy technology.

The European Commission organised on Friday 12 November 2004 a high level workshop to present the results of the study on good public national and regional policies in support of the competitiveness of the ICT sector, in which LL&A participated as a consortium member along with Fraunhofer Institute Systems and Innovation Research (FhG-ISI – Germany) and the Strategy, Technology and Policy Institute of the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO-STB). Continue reading ‘Improving the competitiveness of the European ICT sector: high level European workshop on good public national and regional policies’

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