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Changes
in the ERA from FP4 to FP7: From funding the Innovators to funding
the Established?
Dr. Hans-Liudger Dienel,
Technical University Berlin
Dr. Ronald Pohoryles,
Centre for Comparative Research in the Social Sciences, Wien
Abstract:
Our paper draws on joint empirical research on
the Europeanisation of national science systems, we conducted within FP 5 and FP
6 (Projects Innocult, Semmering and others). More than 700 research institutions
were asked to assess the Europeanisation of their research system.
The paper will show that FP4 and FP5 promoted especially academic climbers,
innovators and "Parias" of the national science systems, while the
established national mandarins were less attracted by European projects. FP4 and
FP5 did promote a structural change in the science system. By creating European
consortia and lifting young institutes, it altered the national science systems
too. At the same time, FP4 and PF5 did create a new nomenclatura of European
scientists, which partially were not rooted in national science systems.
A similar phenomena can be found by comparing states. Researchers in countries
with strong national research funding systems were not as much attracted by the
European funding systems as researchers in countries with weak research funding
systems. Thus the rich countries did not internationalize as much as the poor
within the realm of FP4 and FP5.
FP6 on the other hand had very different effects. By pushing for big consortia,
FP6 was less appropriate for young and small research institutes because
participation required higher preconditions. Now, the old estrablished
institutions again moved foreward.
The paper ends with considerations and conclusions for FP7.
Lit.:
Barend van der Meulen (ed.): Institutional Innovation and Europeanizations of
Research. (Special Issue of Innovation. the European Journal of the Social
Sciences 15(2002), Nr 4.)
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