Customize Consent Preferences

We use cookies to help you navigate efficiently and perform certain functions. You will find detailed information about all cookies under each consent category below.

The cookies that are categorized as "Necessary" are stored on your browser as they are essential for enabling the basic functionalities of the site. ... 

Always Active

Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.

No cookies to display.

Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.

No cookies to display.

Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

No cookies to display.

Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.

No cookies to display.

Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.

No cookies to display.

Meta-evaluation of six competence centres in Sweden

Publication date: 25 Oktober 2013 | Report language: SV

This meta-evaluation included an analysis of evaluations of six competence centres co-funded by the Swedish Energy Agency. The analysis is enriched by a recent impact analysis of Swedish competence centres, and also included comparisons with similar initiatives from other Swedish research funders.

The Swedish Competence Centres Programme is part of an international movement dating back to the 1980’s. The motive behind the launch of the first Swedish competence centres in 1994 was a lack of strong incentives for Swedish researchers to interact with the rest of society, including industry. There was a need for new ways of organizing collaborative research between universities and industry.

The early competence centres showed effects of mainly four types: human capital, innovation effects, economic effects and effects on universities. The present evaluations of six competence centres confirm the picture. The competence centres give rise to a number of concrete results, and large long-term economic impact to participating companies.

Five out of the six evaluated competence centres have existed for a long time, which means that the results and effects observed in the individual evaluations should not be seen as a direct and isolated result of the last programming period. Previous evaluations and impact analyses show that it takes time for the results and impact of R & D projects to occur, and thus become observable. The picture that emerges from these six centres is in line with these observations: the centres generate long-term relationships and links between industrial and academic research.

The report is in Swedish with an English summary.