Technopolis Group will join the REvaluation Conference 2024 from 4 to 6 December in Vienna, Austria. This conference will bring together thought leaders, academics, and practitioners to examine the challenges and opportunities arising from the rapidly evolving landscape of research and innovation policy, along with its impact on assessment and evaluation.
Experts from different Technopolis offices will lead multiple sessions in this year’s conference programme.
Day 1 – 4 December
- Session XC Assessing science productivity: Can old dogs learn transitional tricks? Policy learning from a meta-evaluation of the Swedish Strategic Innovation Programmes. Erik Arnold, Co-founder and Senior Partner of Technopolis Group is presenting results from a policy learning study of the Swedish Strategic Innovation Programmes (SIPs) that aimed to understand how much a traditional innovation funding instrument could be transformed to tackle systems innovation
- Session XE Funding transdisciplinarity: Katharina Warta, Managing Partner of Technopolis Austria, will discuss how to identify societal demand and organize funding processes accordingly.
- XF Learning & reflexivity: Florentine Frantz, Consultant at Technopolis Austria, will present learnings from an on-going developmental evaluation of the initiative “Expedition Zukunft” together with the contracting agency Philipp Aiginger-Evangelisti from the FFG. They will reflect their cycles of learning along epistemic, temporal, and practical challenges encountered in the project.
- Poster session: Tobias Dundenbostel, Principal Consultant of Technopolis Austria, chairs a session on AI and policy evaluation with contributions reflecting on AI applications in evaluations generally, on how to design for AI use in evaluation systems, and on the results of a qualitative evaluation of an application of AI in health.
Day 2 – 5 December
- Session 1A Translation from policy to practice: Katharina Warta, Managing Partner of Technopolis Austria will present conclusions from a Covid-19 emergency call evaluation that can be useful in new crises.
- 1D Green transition & energy: Jan Stede, Principal Consultant of Technopolis Germany, will present an evaluation of the EUR 10.2 bn German electric vehicle subsidy scheme.
- 2D Impact 1 – country cases: Cristina Rosemberg, Managing Partner, and Neil Brown, Partner at Technopolis UK will present their mixed-methods approach to measuring multi- and inter-disciplinarity across the ‘life-cycle’ of research, in the context of the evaluation of the UK’s €1bn Strategic Priorities Fund.
Day 3 – 6 December
- 5A AI tools in funding and evaluation:
- Charlotte d’Elloy, Senior Consultant of Technopolis Austria will present findings of the fteval working group on AI in evaluation.
- Diogo Machado, Head of Data Science at Technopolis-Group, will present with RORI friend Peter Kolarz research about how to use Generative AI responsibly to learn from scientific evaluation reports and drive relevant policy messages about how to promote scientific novelty.
- XC Assessing science productivity: Diogo Machado, Head of Data Science at Technopolis-Group, will present an innovative AI methodology to measure scientific ideas’ “high-risk/high-reward” essence and fight potential algorithmic biases against novelty in Artificial Intelligence.
Interested? Join us from 4–6 December!
Registration is still open—don’t miss out! Secure your spot here.
