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PSF Peer Review: consulting with Hungarian Academy members, startuppers and managers
PSF Peer Review: consulting with Hungarian Academy members, startuppers and managers
21 March 2016
Modified: 14 December 2017
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As the next stage in the process of extensively analysing the RDI system of Hungary and finding new opportunities, an international group of independent experts visited Budapest between 24 and 26 February 2016. During the three-day peer review, the experts held talks with the representatives of government institutions, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, higher education institutions and the private sector.

Based on the evaluation of the firsthand information and the experience gained from the next peer review to take place in April, the group is going to prepare a detailed report by mid-2016.

Hosting one of the meetings, József Pálinkás, President of the NRDI Office, presented a comprehensive picture of the current RDI policy objectives, directives and the ongoing reform of the domestic institutional and financing system relating to research, development and innovation. At one point, Professor Mark Ferguson, head of the panel of independent experts, asked the president to choose a recommendation he would include in the report, if he could do so. “Can I say only one?” József Pálinkás asked in response triggering laughter in the audience; but then he mentioned the cooperation between higher education institutions, research centres and industrial actors as clearly the top priority. Subsequently, the experts asked questions from the senior representatives responsible for strategy making, the planning of calls for applications, analysis and researchers' thematic applications. The experts also held other group meetings with the representatives of the ministries competent in RDI, officials from the Academy and universities, decision-makers of multinational companies, SMEs and innovative start-ups, as well as the representatives of professional organisations. The meetings focused on the following topics: RDI control, financing and policy-making, human resources in the field of RDI, cooperation between science and industry, technology transfer and entrepreneurship, and the framework conditions for innovation in the business sector. The consultation held with consultants and venture capitalists gave a better idea to analysts about how the market benefits from the results of research and development.

Members of the independent expert group:

  • Professor Mark Ferguson, Head of the Group, Director General of Science Foundation Ireland, Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government of Ireland
  • Professor Krzysztof Klincewicz, Rapporteur, Lecturer at Warsaw University, Poland
  • Professor Jakob Edler, Executive Director at the MBS Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, United Kingdom
  • Marjan Oudeman, President of Utrecht University Executive Board, the Netherlands

The experts are assisted by four external peers from Austria, Finland, France and Slovenia, all of them fulfilling offices in governmental RDI organisations which require special expertise.

Peer review
József Pálinkás (NRDIO), Gyula Szigeti (NRDIO), Urban Krajcar, Andrea Höglinger

Peer review
István Szabó (NRDIO), Tamás Attila Kiss (NRDIO), Zoltán Peredy (NRDIO)

Peer review
Dr. Erja Ritva Kaarina Heikkinen, Benoît Legait

Peer review
Urban Krajcar, Andrea Höglinger

Pálinkás Jószef, elnök (NKFIH)
Jószef Pálinkás, President (NRDIO)

Peer review
Krzysztof Klincewicz, Mark Ferguson

Peer review
Marnix Surgeon, Annamária Németh

Peer review
József Pálinkás (NRDIO), Mark Ferguson

Updated: 14 December 2017
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