Using SweCRIS-data for a more strategic investment approach in a fragmented R&D-funding landscape

Abstract

Given Sweden's "rather fragmented landscape of over 20 mostly mid-sized agencies funding innovation-related activities […], horizontal coordination is a major concern" (OECD, 2016). As one of those agencies, Vinnova (Sweden's Innovation Agency) is experimenting with building internal tools to make public funding data (made available by SweCRIS and others) more accessible and actionable for our program managers, thus providing the basis for more informed, data-driven and portfolio-based investment approach. The presentation addresses our take on horizontal coordination, the potential for more data-driven public R&D-funding in Sweden and how this fits into Vinnova's shifting bottom-up approach.