ForskEL - Farmhouse Design

Important findings
The main challenge of the programmes is to promote R&D in
a way that strengthens the power of the private sector’s innovation
and profit incentives. The public energy programmes
can contribute to meeting future energy demands and provide
incentives for private companies to focus on R&D and collaborative
R&D projects (among various combinations of industry,
academia, and national laboratories, other governmental and
semi-governmental entities and NGOs) and provide major potential
for combining different forms of comparative advantage
in the creation of R&D and innovation.
The report is divided into three parts: the organisation of the
PSO funded projects, administrated by Energinet.dk, network
analysis of the ForskEL and ForskVE projects and performance
measurement of the projects’ output.
The organisation of ForskEL and ForskVE projects
ForskEL and ForskVE have almost allocated around DKK 2 billion
from 1998-2013. The majority of the projects are under
DKK 3 million and biomass is the energy area that has received
the largest funding amount. 56% of the projects are in the area
of applied research, but 85% of the total funding goes to demonstration
projects. The majority of the projects only has one
partner, but this percentage has declined since 2007. Furthermore,
the estimated duration time of a project is around 2.5
years. Looking at who participates in the projects, it is observed
that in 51% of the projects, a university is involved in the
projects and 16% included a research technology organisation
(RTO). It is also observed that in 61% of the projects, a privately
held company is main responsible for the project.
Network analysis
First, the report illustrates the whole ForskEL and ForskVE network
from 1998-2013. The sociogram shows that there are
three groups in the whole network: the core group, the periphery
group and the group with no relations to the others. In
other words, the sociogram shows that there are some partners
who are involved in a lot of projects and they have relations to
other partners and then are some partners who are only involved
in one project and do not have any relations. Furthermore,
when looking at the different technology phases, the network
analysis shows that the network structure changes from basic
to demonstration, indicating that partner relations changes
over time as the projects evolve.
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