Featured ResearchReview of the European Data Protection Directive
11 May: RAND Europe alongside time-lex and GNKS-Consult recently completed a review of the European Data protection Directive 95/46/EC for the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). The Directive is the main regulatory means to provide for the protection of the personal data of European citizens. Whilst the Review found that some current problems Directive may be addressed by better and more practicable implementation, for the future arrangements will need to be more focused on Outcomes and tougher enforcement with appropriate regulation of those using personal data. |
Featured ResearchMapping the Impact: Exploring the Payback of Arthritis Research
19 May: This report describes the RAND/ARC Impact Scoring System (RAISS). RAISS was developed as part of the project to produce a replacement for the Arthritis Research Campaign (arc) end-of-grant reporting system. The mapping tool had to be capable of producing data that would stand up to sophisticated analysis, while minimising time and cost burdens on administrators, researchers and data processors. The final tool took the form of a simple Web questionnaire that took most researchers less than an hour to complete. The impact map generated by the tool enables arc to see the returns from individual grants and compare different types of grants. |
Featured ResearchInnovation Procurement: Part of the Solution
17 June: This briefing discusses the possible role and limitations of innovation procurement as an innovation policy instrument. The motivation for the briefing is the increasing interest of policy makers in procurement as an innovation policy measure, while the gap between the policy and economics literature is becoming bigger and bigger. Despite the undoubted potential of innovation procurement, we argue in this briefing that it is important to be aware of when and how to use it: Innovation procurement is only likely to promote innovation efficiently if used in the right circumstances and in the right way. |
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