Narrative: Romanian Public R&D System in 2020

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Background


















Management structure

Foresight design

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Participation

Step 1: Develop future visions

  1. Key stakeholders were interviewed in order to determine possible Focus Themes for the foresight exercise.
  2. A Future Workshop was organized. The objective was to determine a set of Focus Themes from the data collected during the interviews. The participants were decision-makers and futurists. Five Focus Themes were identified:
    • Information Society Technologies
    • Competitiveness through Innovation
    • Quality of Life
    • Social and Cultural Dynamics
    • Energy and Environment
  3. A "non-thematic" Focus Theme was added. It's topic was structural change in the Public R&D System.
  4. An online survey was used in order to collect data on possible Directions for Investigation within each Focus Theme.
  5. The data were clustered, and initial lists of possible Directions for Investigation were produced for each Focus Theme.

Step 2: Theme focusing

The final set of Directions of Investigation are selected from the larger set. Each Focus Theme has at least a minimal number of Directions of Investigation. A Negotiation Workshop was organized, with participants representing the system of technology development agents, economic systems, environmental systems, political and administration systems, social support systems. They formed groups and negotiated according to their interest in one or another of the Focus Themes, rather than the above mentioned affiliations.

Figure 4: The script of a generic Negotiation Workshop with six categories

The Negotiation Workshop

Objective: Select m statements, balanced among p categories, from a larger set of n visionary statements

Preliminaries: A large number of statements about the future are collected, grouped and merged into n visionary statements; the n visionary statements are further grouped into p clusters.

Participants: 60-100 people, representing a diversity of actors (research system, public administration, private interests, civic society, …).

Script:

  1. Organizers are forming p/2 heterogeneous groups, including participants with diverse affiliations. Groups are gathered according to each participant's interest for the topics of two clusters from the total of p clusters, as opposed to their affiliation. In the example from Figure 4, p=6, and three groups are formed: Group A, Group B, Group C. At the next step, each group will analyze two clusters, of most interest for its members.
  2. Groups select m/2 statements from each one of the two clusters they are analyzing. At the end of the first session, each group will identify a list of m visionary statements from the two clusters.
  3. Representatives of each group present their selected list in a short plenary session.
  4. Each group analyzes the lists selected by other groups, and identifies possible trade-offs.
  5. Representatives of each group negotiate a the final list of m statements.
  6. The final list is presented during a short plenary session.

Step 3: Focus on demand for research and development

  1. Once the Directions of Investigation were set, data about Romania's long-term research priorities were collected through interviews and an online survey.
  2. The data were merged into 99 visionary statements for each Focus Theme.
  3. The 99 visionary statements were grouped in 6 clusters for each Focus Theme.
  4. A Negotiation Workshop was organized for each Focus Theme. The workshops produced lists of 15 potential priority visionary statements.

Step 4: Focus on priorities for research and change

Table: Focus Themes and priority Fields of Innovation
INFORMATION SOCIETY TECHNOLOGIES
  • Theoretical Informatics and Computer Science
  • Advanced Information Systems for e-Services
  • Communication Technologies, Systems, and Infrastructures
  • Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Advanced Systems
  • Information Systems Security and Accessibility
  • Technologies for Ambient and Distributed Systems
  • Nano-electronics, Photonics, and micro-nano Integrated Systems
COMPETITIVENESS THROUGH INNOVATION
  • Advanced Materials
  • Biotechnologies for Agriculture, Food Industry and Health
  • Advanced Technologies for Industrial Process Control
  • Innovative Products and Technologies for Transportation
  • Technologies for High-Precision Mechanical Products and Mecatronics
  • New Methods for Management, Marketing and Enterprise Development
QUALITY OF LIFE
  • Quality of Education
  • Quality of Health
  • Quality of Living
  • Quality of Working Conditions
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DYNAMICS
  • Human, Social, and Cultural Capital
  • Material/Immaterial Patrimony – Cultural Tourism. Creative Industries
  • Social Inequalities. Regional Disparities
  • Technology, Organization and Cultural Change
ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT
  • Methods and Procedures for Reducing Environmental Pollution
  • Sustainable Energy Systems and Technologies. Energetic Security
  • Territorial Planning. Infrastructure and Utilities.
  • Waste Management System, Products Life-cycle Analysis, Eco-efficiency
  • Ecological Protection and Reconstruction of Endangered Areas

Step 5: Focus on visionary objectives

Step 6: Models for the public R&D sector


















Step 7: Create a lead vision

Step 8: Prepare for implementing


















Outcomes

Lessons learned

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