The Government created a working group with the mission of carrying out the analysis of the national research and innovation (R&I) ecosystem, within the scope of the creation of the Agency for Research and Innovation (AI²), indicates an order published this Tuesday, February 17, in Diário da República.
This collective will be composed of Eugénio Campos Ferreira, professor at the University of Minho, who coordinates the work of the group and who must, together with other individuals, ensure the scheduling of meetings and the execution of work; Paulo Jorge Ferreira, president of the Council of Rectors of Portuguese Universities (CRUP); Luís Loures, president of the Coordinating Council of Higher Polytechnic Institutes (CCISP); José Francisco Rodrigues, president of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences; Pedro Bizarro, co-founder and scientific director of Feedzai; and Jorge Portugal, general director of COTEC Portugal – Business Association for Innovation.
The working group will aim to carry out a quantitative analysis of the installed capabilities and dynamics of the research and innovation ecosystem, aimed at “supporting the strategic planning work” of AI² and “provide structured quantitative evidence that supports the content of the future review of the legal regime of institutions dedicated to R&Ias well as the general principles of relations with other actors in the national system of science, technology and innovation, including the respective evaluation, recognition and financing”.
The analysis to be developed by the working group must focus, in an integrated and systematic way, on “the installed scientific capacity, including human resources, R&D units [Investigação e Desenvolvimento] and scientific and technological infrastructures”; “technological, innovation and interface capacity, including knowledge transfer structures and companies with R&D activity”; “scientific and technological results and mechanisms for valuing knowledge with an impact on research and innovation”; and “the international positioning of the national system of science, technology and innovation”.
The working group will have until February 24th to produce and present “to the government areas of Economy and Territorial Cohesion, and Education, Science and Innovation, a final technical report, structured in a coherent way and with a description of the work carried out, with the key themes for AI² planning”. The creation of the future Agency for Research and Innovation was approved in December and constitutes, according to the Minister of Education, Science and Innovation, the opportunity for Portugal to decide what it wants for this sector.
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