R&D

Hannes Leo

Content• Keep it simple: strategy and presentation• Put discussion into perspective: Long term

horizon• Strategy and experimentation• Decision making• Investment and R&D

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Strategy and Experimentation• Shock to the system• Stability and Chaos• „Islands of order“• Create a very stable core that does 70% of the job• Address challenges for business sector and

academics separately• Agencification

• Experimentation

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Decision Making• Knowledge-based society is a reality• There is too much knowledge out there to ignore

it• Get as many brains thinking about your problems • Find a way to crowdsource this knowledge

• Open up discussion, involve outside experts, start experimenting, create community and opportunities...

• Interaction between the core group and crowd

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Investment and R&D• Liase with overall development strategy • S&T is driver and driven• Investment, competition, education,

competitiveness and specialisation strategy... • Investment will have more impact in the short

term• Returns in Austria were twice as high as in

countries of origin (e.g. USA)• Generates the funds for R&D and innovation

• Innovation is for all business – R&D for some

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R&D• Education, Research and Innovation• Research without echo in the economy is not

going to produce positive results• Economy-science interaction is important• linear approach not helpful in this respect• Can only interact if there is an overlap in areas of

interest, otherwise research is not translated into innovation

• Same applies to supply of skilled persons from the education system and demand from the enterprises

• Research might be “door opener” to new areas

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Some conclusions• What is the optimal balance between strategic

behaviour and a not co-ordinated bottom-up idea generation system?

• Create consensus that goes beyond the political day to day business

• Investment and R&D• Be ambitious and patient• Accept that the knowledge-based society is a

reality – try to insource “brain activity” through opening the process

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