Objective The ongoing global economic crisis is seriously challenging advanced capitalistic economies. In the last year the GDP has fallen at dramatic rates, creating the conditions for the upsurge of unemployment, above all in areas characterized by specialization in mature industries. According to recent growth models and empirical evidence, innovation and knowledge creation represent the main factors able to improve the competitiveness and the long run perspectives of growth of countries. Yet, innovation and technology policies have mainly been designed by relying on a supply side perspective so as to affect the creation of knowledge by providing funds to carry out R&D activities and by enhancing education and training for researchers. However, a debate has recently emerged, about the need for grafting innovation and technology policies in a demand-oriented framework. The aim of this project is to provide an original contribution to the ongoing debate, advancing the understanding of the mechanisms through which demand-based innovation policies may stimulate effective knowledge creation process, and eventually trigger competitiveness and productivity growth. To this purpose, the research activity will consist of both theoretical models and empirical analyses, the results of which should be able to inform the policy design process. We shall distinguish between public and private demand for both final and intermediate goods and services and will analyze their effects on the generation, diffusion and exploitation of technological knowledge by articulating the research activity on different dimensions (regional, sectoral and institutional). The research activity will be conducted by pursuing a great deal of multidisciplinarity and combining a number of diverse methodologies. The results of the analyses will in turn provide the basis upon which a taxonomy of demand-oriented technology policies may be elaborated. Fields of science social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivitysocial sciencessociologysocial issuesunemployment Programme(s) FP7-SSH - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities Topic(s) SSH-2010-1.1-1 - Demand-driven research and innovation policies for growth, welfare and wellbeing Call for proposal FP7-SSH-2010-2 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research project Coordinator COLLEGIO CARLO ALBERTO - CENTRO DI RICERCA E ALTA FORMAZIONE EU contribution € 371 744,00 Address CORSO VITTORIO EMANUELE II 75 10128 Torino Italy See on map Region Nord-Ovest Piemonte Torino Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Elisa Clauser (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT Netherlands EU contribution € 207 504,00 Address HEIDELBERGLAAN 8 3584 CS Utrecht See on map Region West-Nederland Utrecht Utrecht Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Andre Van Der Kallen (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITE DE NICE - SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS France EU contribution € 199 552,00 Address AVENUE VALROSE - GRAND CHATEAU 28 06100 NICE - CEDEX 2 See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Sarah Dahl (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE United Kingdom EU contribution € 212 408,00 Address Houghton Street 1 WC2A 2AE London See on map Region London Inner London — West Westminster Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Maribel Glogowski (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS Spain EU contribution € 219 423,00 Address CALLE SERRANO 117 28006 Madrid See on map Region Comunidad de Madrid Comunidad de Madrid Madrid Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Eusebio Jiménez Arroyo (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data CASE - CENTRUM ANALIZ SPOLECZNO- EKONOMICZNYCH- FUNDACJA NAUKOWA Poland EU contribution € 203 620,00 Address UL LUDWIKA ZAMENHOFA 5 LOK 1B 00 165 WARSZAWA See on map Region Makroregion województwo mazowieckie Warszawski stołeczny Miasto Warszawa Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Sebastien Leclef (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITAET HOHENHEIM Germany EU contribution € 224 148,00 Address SCHLOSS HOHENHEIM 70599 Stuttgart See on map Region Baden-Württemberg Stuttgart Stuttgart, Stadtkreis Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Hans-Peter Liebig (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data THE SAMUEL NEAMAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF THE TECHNION LTD (PSC) Israel EU contribution € 200 420,00 Address TECHNION CITY 32000 Haifa See on map Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Daphne Getz (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data