CIRCLE Research
CIRCLE conducts multidisciplinary research and education on the
following issues:
- Long-term perspectives on innovation, structural change and economic growth.
- Entrepreneurship and venture capital formation with a special focus on new ventures.
- The dynamics of R&D systems and technological systems, including their impact on entrepreneurship and growth.
- Regional innovation systems in different national and international contexts.
- International comparative analyses of national innovation systems.
- Policy design based on policy learning.
- Knowledge creation
We focus on the socioeconomic and policy aspects of three kinds of
learning: innovation, research and development and competence building
within an international, comparative and long-term perspective. The
research within the framework of CIRCLE is conducted under two long-term
base funding:
- The VINNOVA Four Research Areas
- The Linnaeus three platforms and three perspectives (VR)
Evaluation of reseach at CIRCLE
2008-12-03
The quality of research at CIRCLE was evaluated twice by international peers in 2008. CIRCLE came out extremely well in both evaluations. The contexts of the evaluations were: (1) as a part of the RQ08 (Lund University’s Project for Research Quality Assurance, 2008) evaluation of all research units at Lund University and (2) as a recipient of a Linnaeus Research Grant from the Swedish Research Council.
- The RQ08 evaluation of CIRCLE can be found here. CIRCLE was graded as “excellent” in all relevant dimensions, which stands out as the best score in relation to comparable units (all Departments at the School of Economics and Management and the Faculty of Social Sciences at Lund University). CIRCLE has achieved this after a mere four years in existence. The evaluation of all research units at Lund university is available at: http://www.lu.se/upload/LUPDF/Forskning/RQ08_helarapporten.pdf
- The evaluation administered by the Swedish Research Council can be found here. This evaluation concerned only the part of CIRCLE research that is being carried out within the framework of the Linnaeus research grant, and its relation to other research at CIRCLE. Twenty Linnaeus grants are awarded to research groups across all disciplines and universities/university colleges in Sweden every other year (starting in 2006). The Linnaeus grants awarded in 2006 are described at: http://www.vr.se/mainmenu/fundinggranted/linnaeusgrants/linnaeusgrantsallocated2006.4.4b3ca0f810bf51c922780003302.html
External financers: