Publications: Innovation and Technology Policy
2012
Bringing the electric vehicle to the mass market: a review of barriers, facilitators and policy interventions — 2012
Provides an international overview of the barriers and facilitators to the wider adoption of electric vehicles.
Crowdsourcing Based Business Models: In Search of Evidence for Innovation 2.0 — 2012
Open innovation has gained increased attention as a potential paradigm for improving innovation performance. This paper addresses crowdsourcing, an under-researched type of open innovation that is often enabled by the web.
Feasibility Study for a European Cybercrime Centre — 2012
RAND Europe conducted a feasibility study on a European Cybercrime Centre by reviewing literature, conducting extensive consultations with law enforcement and a scenario based workshop. The study evaluated different options for the set up of the ECC.
Funding and performance on clinical guidelines: The cases of dementia and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease — 2012
This exploratory study investigates the characteristics of publications cited on clinical guidelines, and the funding sources they acknowledge, in order to better understand how research is translated into changes in policy and practice.
Innovation Networks: More Than Just a Metaphor? — 2012
Networks are increasingly invoked by contemporary economists as a novel mode of organising human endeavours, somewhere between price markets and command hierarchies, somehow able to produce coordinated coherence. The book emerges from a European Commission project aimed at developing new indicators and measures of innovation.
2011
Alternatives to peer review in research project funding — 2011
This report highlights a set of established alternatives to traditional peer review. It is intended to inspire thinking amongst research funders about what the alternatives are, and where and how they can be used.
Bibliometric analysis of highly cited publications of health research in England, 2002-2006 — 2011
Aims to support the selection of National Institute of Health Research Biomedical Research Centres and Biomedical Research Units by informing the decision making of both potential candidates and the NIHR selection panel.
The Cloud: Understanding the Security, Privacy and Trust Challenges — 2011
This report discusses how policy-makers might address the challenges and risks in respect of the security, privacy and trust aspects of cloud computing that could undermine the attainment of broader economic and societal objectives across Europe.
Complex trauma research in the UK: A rapid review of the funding landscape — 2011
This documented briefing presents the results of a rapid review of the funding landscape for complex trauma research in the UK. Recommendations are made about how to strengthen this niche and orphan area of research.
Delivering the aims of the CLAHRCs: evaluating CLAHRCs' strategies and contributions: Interim report: Phase I — 2011
This report catalogues the first phase of an evaluation of the nine Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRCs) established in October 2008 by the UK National Institute for Health Research.
Healthcare Technology Co-operatives: Filling a niche in the English R&D landscape — 2011
This evaluation of the pilot Health Technology Cooperatives (HTCs), part of England's research infrastructure, explored how the HTCs fit into the health innovation landscape and recommended how best to support core HTC activities in the future.
The impact of information and communication technologies in the Middle East and North Africa — 2011
This report explores the impact of information and communication technologies in the Middle East and North Africa region. It provides a series of analyses and inputs to the World Bank that intended to help frame their thinking about ICT use in MENA.
A Prize Worth Paying? Non-standard ways to support and reward excellence in health research and development in the UK NHS — 2011
This paper outlines the issues, and finds merit in developing non-standard incentives, such as prizes, to support excellence in health research in addition to 'standard' performance management and routine inspection.
Project Retrosight: Understanding the returns from cardiovascular and stroke research: Case Studies — 2011
This work explores impacts of cardiovascular and stroke research funded 15–20 years ago and draws out aspects associated with high or low impact. It describes 29 case studies of grants from Australia, Canada and UK.
Project Retrosight: Understanding the returns from cardiovascular and stroke research — 2011
Project Retrosight analysed 29 case studies of cardiovascular and stroke research in Australia, Canada and the UK, examining the diversity of impact produced by this kind of research and identifying factors associated with various levels of payback.
Project Retrosight: Understanding the returns from cardiovascular and stroke research: The Policy Report — 2011
This work explores impacts of cardiovascular and stroke research funded 15-20 years ago and draws out aspects associated with high or low impact. It describes 29 case studies of grants from Australia, Canada and UK. Policy summary volume.
Project Retrosight: Understanding the returns from cardiovascular and stroke research: Methodology Report — 2011
This work explores impacts of cardiovascular and stroke research funded 15–20 years ago and draws out aspects associated with high or low impact. It describes 29 case studies of grants from Australia, Canada and UK. Methodology volume.
Time Lags: A Feasibility Study — 2011
Explores the feasibility of using data from Alberta Innovate Health Solutions to study time lags between research expenditure and the eventual health benefits.
Translational Research and Knowledge in agriculture and food production — 2011
This report considers how translational research and knowledge exchange can be enhanced throughout the food and agricultural value chain so that best use is made of public and private investment in research and knowledge generation.
Travel Using Managed Lanes: An Application of a Stated Choice Model for Houston, Texas — 2011
The mean value of travel time savings obtained from a random parameters logit model estimated using the respondents who received the D-efficient design survey was closer to what is typically found in the literature.
Update to The Sigma Scan — 2011
This external publication is an online database of short Horizon Scanning Centre think-pieces. RAND Europe updated 25% of the papers on this database, to incorporate more recent policy issues, evidence, and developments.
2010
Capturing Research Impacts: A review of international practice — 2010
An international review of approaches to assessing the wider impact of research carried out for the Higher Education Funding Council for England. Examines Australian RQF, UK RAISS, US PART and Dutch ERiC framework.
Chaos or Control? — 2010
What is the role of government in a borderless internet world? RAND Europe assesses the implications for policy makers.
Data strategies for policymaking: Identifying international good practice: Final report — 2011
This report provides an overview of international good practice in using data for policymaking. It develops a conceptual framework for analysing data strategies and provides examples of good practice in data management from thirteen case studies.
Enabling long-term access to scientific, technical and medical data collections — 2010
Offers results that address the potential role of the British Library (BL) in facilitating access to relevant datasets in the biosciences and environmental science. The aim is to assist the BL in developing an appropriate strategy to enable it to establish a role for itself in the intake, curation, archiving, and preservation of scientific, technical, and medical reference datasets, in order to provide access for research purposes.
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