• Presentation to IPTS, Seville, on the results of the CREST policy mix peer review exercise • Presentation to IWT, Brussels, on the results of the CREST policy mix peer review exercise • Presentation to OECD, Paris, on the results of the CREST policy mix peer review exercise • Moderator and rapporteur for a Six Countries workshop on innovation and procurement • Scientific director of a programme of activity designed to evaluate DG IST’s FP6 activities • Co-author of a paper in Research Policy on the Five year Assessment of the EU’s RTD Framework Programmes • Member of the management committee of the ERAWATCH consortium, set up by IPTS and DG RTD to monitor and assess developments in R&D and innovation policy • Presentation on customer-client relationships at a DG Enterprise conference on the monitoring and evaluation of innovation programmes • Presentation at a joint EU/WREN/KISTEP conference in Korea on the design of R&D and innovation policy evaluations • Presentation at a DG Enterprise TrendChart conference in Brussels on R&D and innovation policy trends • Editor and co-author of ‘Promoting Innovation and Competitiveness: a Transatlantic Dialogue’, the proceedings of a conference organised by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs in cooperation with the US Council of Competitiveness and the Luxembourg EU Presidency • Peer Review of R&D and innovation policy mixes in EU countries as part of the second cycle of the OMC drive to increase R&D investment to 3% of GDP • Preparation of a series of presentations for MEXT on evaluation theory and practice, delivered in Tokyo in March 2005 • Contribution on evaluation methodology to a course on the design and evaluation of innovation policy in developing countries, organised by INTECH, United Nations University, Maastricht, in January 2005
 
Projects and tasks commencing 2005
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