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Bio-based industries, towards a public-private partnership under Horizon 2020? Report on the European Commission’s Public on-line consultation
No full textThe Europe 2020 strategy highlights the building of
a bioeconomy by 2020 as a deliverable of its flagship
initiative «Innovation Union». Accordingly, the Commission
has recently presented the communication «Innovating
for sustainable growth : A bioeconomy for Europe»
(COM (2012) 60 final). Together with Horizon 2020, the
upcoming next Union’s Framework programme for Research
and Innovation, these EU policies promote technological
and sustainability leadership as a lever for industrial
competitiveness on a global scale. Based on previous
experience, public-private partnerships could contribute
to facilitating and speeding-up innovation in the EU while
reducing time-to-markets of new products and services.
This publication reports upon the results of an online public
consultation, conducted by the European Commission in the
second part of 2012, regarding the question «Bio-based
industries, towards a public-private partnership under
Horizon 2020?”
Bio-based economy for Europe: state of play and future potential - Part 1
No full textThis report presents the statistical analysis and the content analysis of data collected with the help of the questionnaire published in relation to the public consultation ‘Bio based economy for Europe: state of play and future potential’ (open 22 February to 2 May 2011 (http://ec.europa.eu/research/consultations/bioeconomy/consultation_en.htm). It provides a summary of views received from individuals, organisations and public authorities that could assist the Commission in shaping the strategy and action plan necessary to develop and promote a sustainable European bio based economy.
Results are presented in tables and graphs and highlight the main trends in the overall opinion of respondents. Particular attention is paid to analysing how results may vary according to respondents’ profile, sector and professional fields.
Three annexes accompany this report:
— Annex I includes the questionnaire used for the public consultation;
— Annex II lists all respondent’s comments to open questions;
— Annex III presents general comments of respondents who chose not to provide their personal details and, therefore, were denied access to the questionnaire but were allowed to leave general comments
Report on the Consultation on Long Term Sustainability of Research Infrastructures
No full textResearch infrastructures are one of the key elements for the development and the improvement of knowledge and technology in the European context.
Commissioner Moedas affirmed in his Mission Statement that: “Improving research infrastructure and making better use of research results is essential to strengthen innovation further, develop new activities and boost the productivity and competitiveness of our economy”. The Informal Competitiveness Council of July 2014 highlighted the importance of long-term sustainability of RI, stressing that open access to RI and data, better links with industry and prioritisation based on a multi-level approach (national, European and international level) were key to ensure sustainability. Furthermore, RI need a long-term perspective for their construction and operation.
Building on the achievements of the European Research Area and the Innovation Union flagship initiative, there is now a need to identify the next steps for a more comprehensive approach and vision on the long-term sustainability of RI, fully using their potential to deliver on the Commission priorities on open innovation, open science and open to the world.
Given these premises, from 2nd December 2015 to 1st February 2016, the Commission opened an online Consultation on Long-term sustainability of Research Infrastructures with RI stakeholders, receiving 200 answers.
The aim of this targeted consultation was to collect key stakeholders’ views on the interrelated pre-conditions that could ensure the long-term sustainability of RI and the potential actions/measures to tackle the challenges posed by their implementation. The pre-identified pre-conditions are Ensuring Scientific excellence, Skills of managers, operators and users, Unlocking Innovation potential of RI, Measuring socio-economic impact of RI, Exploiting better the data generated by the RI, RI Life cycle – Upgrading of RI, RI Life cycle – Decommissioning of RI, Ensuring sustainable governance of RI, Funding the construction and operation of RI and Structuring the international dimension of RI. For every pre-condition, the consultation provided a short explanation and a brief description of the issues at stake and possible actions.
The communities targeted by the consultation were ERA stakeholders, ESFRI projects and ERICs, ESFRI delegations/ PC members, e-IRG, EIROforum, International Organizations, RI associations (e.g. ERF), NCPs (dissemination within key stakeholders), and Science attaches from strategic third country partners.
Data were collected with an online semi-standardized questionnaire, i.e. with a mix of close-ended and open-ended questions. The qualitative open-ended questions addressed the most relevant topics in the survey, i.e. the measures to tackle the challenges posed by the pre-conditions for sustainability; this type of questions allowed interviewees to freely express their considerations in their own words allowing therefore for the possibility to deepen their answers with personal opinions and experiences.
The response rate to the consultation was very high as was also the level of detail provided by the respondents in the open questions. This has positively impacted both on the quality and on the reliability of the consultation results.
The responses have been subsequently analysed with the support of an external. An overview of the initial findings of the consultation was already presented on the occasion of the ESFRI Roadmap 2016 Update Launch event that took place on 10 March 2016 in Amsterdam.
The final purpose of this consultation was to derive the main trends on RI sustainability, as perceived by the targeted communities, on which basis elements of an action plan can be developed in concertation with the main stakeholders.
Therefore, this report presents such trends extracted from the responses received by the Commission services during the consultation. The report provides an overview of the methodology used for consultation, the profile of the respondents and a summary of the survey results
E' normale la curva normale? Genesi e sviluppo di un mito.
No full textLa curva normale è stata una protagonista dello sviluppo della statistica tra il XVIII e il XX secolo. In un contesto scientifico ancora ispirato dalla filosofia newtoniana, la stabilità delle occorrenze dei fenomeni
naturali – tradotta empiricamente nella regolarità dei valori delle distribuzioni di frequenza di una stessa proprietà – veniva considerata segno inequivocabile della presenza di una legge universale.
Probabilmente le origini del concetto risalgono ancora più indietro, alle riflessioni delle filosofie orientali e di quella greca. L’idea su cui si fonda la curva – gli stati intermedi di una proprietà sono più frequenti, quelli estremi sono più rari – permane tuttora nel sapere tacito e nel senso comune.
Sorta per formalizzare la probabilità di eventi ludici, ben presto la Curva Normale si estende alle scienze della natura e poi alle scienze dell’uomo. Da allora i ricercatori di svariate discipline, incuranti dei vincoli imposti da una sua corretta applicazione, hanno professato l’ubiquità della curva normale. Nel modo di concepirla, è passata da strumento di conoscenza a essenza della realtà e legge universale, fino ad assumere perfino una connotazione trascendente. Questo libro non analizza la curva normale da un punto di vista statistico-matematico, né le sue legittime applicazioni alle scienze della natura; ma critica il suo uso distorto nelle scienze umane, in cui l’ansia di legittimazione scientista ne ha alimentato il mito
Statistical Analysis and report writing in the EFA BOOK on Respiratory Allergies - raise awareness, relieve the burdenedited by Erkka Valorvirta
No full textThe main research goal of the EFA survey was to get
an overview of how Europe is doing in the area of
respiratory allergies (specifically allergic rhinitis and
allergic asthma). EFA wanted to hear the voice of patients
through their national associations in order to
understand what needs to be done to improve awareness
of the importance of prevention, an early diagnosis
and management of respiratory allergies. The
empirical research aims were to: 1) evaluate allergy
and asthma in European countries from an epidemiological,
medical and social point of view as seen from
the patient’s perspective; 2) learn about issues that
are important for patients and for the activities of
patients’ associations and 3) illustrate the work done
by patients’ associations to enable them to share best
practice
L'indagine qualitativa: i focus group
No full textIl volume illustra i risultati ottenuti dalla ricerca, svolta dal Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche (DiSES) dell’Università degli Studi di Salerno in collaborazione con la Fondazione Axel Munthe Villa San Michele con sede ad Anacapri, sui flussi turistici dell’isola di Capri, sulla percezione che i turisti hanno dell’isola e di Villa San Michele e sulle caratteristiche dei visitatori della Villa. La ricerca, dopo aver analizzato le serie storiche dei flussi turistici, focalizza l’attenzione sul profilo e sulle caratteristiche dei turisti/visitatori di Capri e della Villa analizzando i dati emersi da un’indagine statistica svolta sul territorio
INCHIESTA 2001 TRA I LETTORI DI ROCCA
No full textL'articolo illustra i risultati di una ricerca condotta per "ROCCA" con l'obiettivo di tracciare un profilo di carattere sociologico dei lettori di tale rivista. Le dimensioni centrali dell'indagine sono: orientamenti valoriali, fiducia nelle Istituzioni, fiducia interpersonale, consumo mediale, percezione del grado di sicurezza sociale
Telling “Stories”: a mixed approach in collecting and analyzing data on values
No full textrelazione al convegno "CJC Praxiling 2011 : Corpus, Données, Modèles : approches qualitatives et quantitatives" svoltosi il 9 e il 10 giugno 2011 all'Università di Montpellier, Francia.
Abstract
Our paper illustrates the potentialities and the limits of the “telling stories” approach, an alternative technique in collecting and analyzing data on values of people of contemporary societies. This technique was originally developed by Alberto Marradi (1996; 2005).
It relies mainly on narration and it may integrate quantitative and qualitative features both in collecting information and analyzing data.
The narration of an significant episode, from a socio-cultural point of view, appears particularly suitable for surveys on values: "story-telling has always been used to raise moral issues, to convey values, to justify norms (as parables). Every good teacher knows that anecdotes are the most effective means to invoke or enrich his audience’s tacit knowledge of environments, situations and personalities" (Marradi, 2005).
The importance of narration in cognitive processes has been highlighted by many authors; one of these, American psychologist Jerome Bruner (1990, 2002), has discussed this topic with a particular reference to the formation of moral and legal judgments.
“Stories” are substantially interviewing tools, designed to explore the position of respondents on various ethical dimensions (for example, universalism/particularism; responsibility/dependence; passivity/activism, and so on). These dimensions are considered as a continuum whose extremes are semantically anchored to opposite moral concepts.
Administration of "Stories" essentially consists of two parts:
a) a verbally reported episode (occasionally illustrated by a drawing) presenting a situation that usually implies a moral dilemma or a controversial choice. This should stimulate a genuine reaction in the respondent that should make clearer his collocation on the conceptual dimension surveyed;
b) a direct question inviting the respondent to express his or her reactions on the narrated episode.
In methodological literature it is possible to trace some techniques like “stories”. For example, “vignettes” or similar tools were used by Nosanchuk (1972), Neff (1979), Converse and Presser (1986, 26) and Finch (1987). There are also affinities to an instrument used by Kohlberg (1968) and built upon Piaget's ideas (1932) to point out six phases of moral development. However, “Stories” differ significantly from these techniques, because they are totally based upon a process of meaning negotiation with interviewees which has original characteristics.
Another important feature of the “stories” is its wide versatility from a data analysis point of view. Drawing insights from the results of our research, we also illustrate how data collected with this technique could be analyzed with quantitative or qualitative tools (for example hermeneutics) and how these data coul
La méthode des <Histories>: une approche mixte de la collect et de l'analyse de données sur les valeurs
No full textNotre article illustre les potentialités ainsi que les limites méthodologiques des hostories, consiérées comme une approche alternative au recueil d'informations sur les valeurs en sciences sociales
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