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Scientific collaboration: (priority medium, lots <strong>of</strong> data available already, but important to
understand status quo <strong>of</strong> international activities)
• Co-Publication and co-inventions (applications, granted) <strong>of</strong> EU and non EU partners
authors (absolute numbers, relative shares, differentiated for knowledge areas,
analysis <strong>of</strong> partner countries). 23
• Citations <strong>of</strong> extra-EU collaborations (vs. intra-EU or non-collaborative papers),
development over time
Financing: (priority low) Publications from projects funded by non EU funding sources 24
The data for those indicators should be compiled and analysed on a regular basis through inhouse
capacities (DG Research or JRC IPTS) or outsourced to a regular data provider.
Mobility: (priority high as competition or talent is a major challenge)
Indicators should capture mobility (intended for limited duration) and migration (in principle
open by nature) <strong>of</strong> public and private researchers. Given <strong>the</strong> importance <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> availability <strong>of</strong>
talent in <strong>the</strong> decades to come, <strong>the</strong>re should be a focus on PhD and early stage career
researchers, inward, outward. Data should enable country and field specific analysis.
Indicators on mobility should build on <strong>the</strong> work done in <strong>the</strong> EU funded project IISER
(Integrated Information System on European Researchers 25 ). The IISER indicator set covers
researcher stocks (general and early stage), research careers and researcher mobility (intra-
EU, into and out <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> EU).
As <strong>the</strong> instruments are in place at EU level for most <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> data, data for those indicators
should be compiled and analysed in a European wide database, building upon existing
activities.
Research Organisation (medium priority)
Data for research organisation (PRO and Universities) is very scattered and non-systematic
across Europe. Every ambition must take this into account. We thus recommend starting with
a simple list <strong>of</strong> key indicators to understand dynamics and effects <strong>of</strong> international activities
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• Share <strong>of</strong> projects with non EU partners
• Share <strong>of</strong> project and licencing income coming from non EU sources
• Number, location and size/importance <strong>of</strong> labs in non-EU countries
• Share <strong>of</strong> employed research staff coming from non EU countries
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An analysis <strong>of</strong> numbers and trends should be accompanied by a selected analysis <strong>of</strong> patent values, i.e. linked
to licensing income.
Can be analysed via Web <strong>of</strong> Science, as this data is available now on a regular basis.
More information on this project can be found at: http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu/activities/research-andinnovation/iiser.cfm
This list does not contain as yet so called strategic “positioning indicators” (Lepori et al. 2008, Barré 2006)
which indicate <strong>the</strong> position <strong>of</strong> organisations within <strong>the</strong>ir system and vis-à-vis o<strong>the</strong>r organisations (such as <strong>the</strong>
existence <strong>of</strong> internationalisation strategies etc.).
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