04: The Efficiency of RTI Investments
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in englischer SpracheDue to ever scarcer national budgets the discussion about evaluating research inputs to measure output efficiency is intensifying. The resources allocated for R&D increasingly have to be connected to measurable effects and performances. In addition, public subsidies have to be legitimised through economic returns higher than those of other potential recipient projects. Research has to face this challenge as well. In times when rankings become more and more important this poses the question of how research can be evaluated meaningfully and how input and output can be compared in a useful way.
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Dr. Wolfgang BURTSCHER
Deputy Director-General, Directorate-General Research and Innovation, European Commission, Brussels
| Wolfgang Burtscher is Deputy Director-General of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation. | |
| An Austrian national, Wolfgang Burtscher acted before joining DG Research and Innovation as a Director in DG Agriculture of the European Commission since 2000. Before his Commission career Mr Burtscher was representative of the Länder at the Austrian Permanent Representation to the EU. From 1992 to 1996 he was Director of European Affairs in the Vorarlberg administration. Previously, from 1990 to 1992, he was a legal advisor at the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) in Geneva, at the time of negotiations on the European Economic Area (EEA). He focused particularly on the free circulation of goods and capital and on competition issues. Between 1983-1990 he was a lecturer in International and European Law at the University of Innsbruck. Wolfgang Burtscher holds a doctorate in law and also has a qualification from the Institut Européen des Hautes Etudes Internationales in Nice. |
Mag. Gernot HUTSCHENREITER
Head, Department Country Innovation Policy Reviews, Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation, OECD - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris
| Trained as an economist at the University of Vienna Gernot Hutschenreiter joined the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) in 1989. From 1998 to 2002 he served as Deputy Director of WIFO. At the international level he has worked as a consultant for a number of organisations such as UNIDO, the OECD and the European Commission. He was a guest research scholar with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and visiting scholar at the Graduate School of Decision Science at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. In 2003 he joined the Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris as a Senior Economist. He has managed and contributed to a series of innovation policy reviews of OECD and Non-OECD countries, including the first OECD Review of China s innovation policy. |
Dr. Christian KEUSCHNIGG
Director, WPZ - Economic Policy Center, and Professor for Public Economics, University of St.Gallen
| 1987 | Doktor rer.soc.oec. (Ph.D. in Economics), Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck |
| 1995 | Venia Docendi, Economic Policy and Public Finance, University of Vienna |
| 1997-2001 | Professor of Public Economics, University of Saarland; Director of European Institute, Economics, University of Saarland |
| since 2001 | Professor of Public Economics and Director of FGN-HSG, University of St. Gallen |
| 2012-2014 | Director, Institute of Advanced Studies, Vienna |
| since 2015 | Director, Wirtschaftspolitisches Zentrum, St. Gallen |
Dr. Julia I. LANE
Program Director, Science of Science and Innovation Policy, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA
| 1982 | 1983 Assistant Professor of Economics, Western Illinois University |
| 1984 | 1990 Assistant and Associate Professor of Economics, University of Louisville |
| 1990 | 2001 Assistant, Associate and Full Professor of Economics, American University |
| 1996 | 1997 Private Sector Development, World Bank (on sabbatical) |
| 2000 | 2004 Director, Employment Dynamics Program and Principal Research Associate, The Urban Institute |
| 2004 | 2005 Program Director, Economics, National Science Foundation |
| 2005 | 2008 Senior Vice President and Director, Economics, Labor, and Population, NORC at the University of Chicago |
| since 2008 | Program Director, Science of Science and Innovation Policy, National Science Foundation |
Dr. Ruperta LICHTENECKER
Member of the Austrian National Council, Green Party; Chair, Parliamentary Committee on Research, Innovation and Technology, Vienna
| Studium der Volkswirtschaftslehre | |
| seit 1990 | Ökonomin und Wissenschafterin u.a. am Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre an der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz |
| seit 1993 | Universitätslektorin für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz |
| 2003-2006 | Bundesrätin der Grünen |
| seit 2006 | Abgeordnete zum Nationalrat |
| Vorsitzende des Ausschusses für Forschung, Innovation u. Technologie im Parlament | |
| Wirtschafts- und Forschungssprecherin der Grünen |
Mag. Dr. Karin SCHAUPP
Management Consultant; Member, Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development, Vienna
| 1978 | Promotion zum Dr. Phil. am Institut für Pharmazeutische Chemie, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz |
| Hochschulassistentin am Institut für Pharmazeutische Chemie, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz | |
| 1980 | Leiterin der Analytischen Abteilung und Qualitätskontrolle, Firma Leopold Pharma |
| 1985 | Leitung der Forschung und Entwicklung, Firma Leopold Pharma |
| 1987 | Leitung der Forschungsaktivitäten, Knoll Hospitalgruppe |
| 1992 | Forschungsleitung für definierte Konzernproduktbereiche, Fresenius AG |
| 1997 | Geschäftsführerin der Fresenius Kabi Austria und Übernahme der gewerberechtlichen Geschäftsführung |
| 1999 | Regionalleiterin für Österreich/Südost Europa für den Produktbereich Parenterale und Enterale Ernährung |
| 2000 | Ernennung zum Mitglied des Vorstandes der Fresenius Kabi AG, Bad Homburg |
| 2003 | Unternehmensberaterin mit Schwerpunkt strategische Unternehmensentwicklung, Innovationsmanagement und Technologietransfer, Organisationsstrukturen, Merger und Akquisition |
