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REvaluation Podcast

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4 days ago

Markus Wanko is the founding force behind the XISTA innovation ecosystem, empowering science innovators. Today, Markus leads XISTA’s venture fund (Managing Partner), science park (MD), and tech transfer arm (MD). With his work he helps ISTAs research to develop it's full societal potential. In this interview we learn how start up trainings must be sector specific to be most effective, where the venture capital for the science start-ups typically comes from and what Markus recommends to the ev...

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Markus Wanko is the founding force behind the XISTA innovation ecosystem, empowering science innovators. Today, Markus leads XISTA’s venture fund (Managing Partner), science park (MD), and tech transfer arm (MD). With his work he helps ISTAs research to develop it's full societal potential. In this interview we learn how start up trainings must be sector specific to be most effective, where the venture capital for the science start-ups typically comes from and what Markus recommends to the ev...

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Episodes (20/34)

REvaluation Podcast

Episode #33 - Anastasia Lijadi about IIASA as a "scientific powerhouse"

Anastasia Lijadi is Executive Assistant to the Deputy Director General and Gender Equality and DEI Officer at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). We hear how IIASA's international set-up allows research perspectives at a global systemic scale to tackle our time's most pressing problems. More information about IIASA's Gender Equality Plan can be found here: https://iiasa.ac.at/about-iiasa/institute/equality-diversity-and-inclusion/iiasa-gender-equality-plan-...

1 week ago

41 minutes

REvaluation Podcast

Episode #34 - "Crafting career trajectories that are attractive for excellent people": Markus Wanko at XISTA

Markus Wanko is the founding force behind the XISTA innovation ecosystem, empowering science innovators. Today, Markus leads XISTA’s venture fund (Managing Partner), science park (MD), and tech transfer arm (MD). With his work he helps ISTAs research to develop it's full societal potential. In this interview we learn how start up trainings must be sector specific to be most effective, where the venture capital for the science start-ups typically comes from and what Markus recommends to the ev...

1 week ago

37 minutes

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Episode #32: Let's play cards and co-create a theory of change within an hour!

Erika Hajdu and Stefan de Jong of the Evaluating Societal Impact team at the Erasmus University Rotterdam developed a card game to structure discussions around complex impact pathways, and to enable teams to draft early versions of their Theory of Change in a more interesting, time-efficient way. They presented their approach at the REvaluation Conference, and we thought this tool might be useful for the fteval community. In this interview we learn how the game works and how it ca...

1 month ago

28 minutes

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Folge 31 - Innovation messen, Chancen erkennen: WPZ Research über Österreich im European Innovation Scoreboard

Diesmal waren wir zu Gast bei WPZ Research und konnten uns dort einiges über die jüngste Ausgabe des European Innovation Scoreboards (EIS) und Österreichs Performance darin erfahren. Brigitte Ecker und Sascha Sardadvar erklärten uns geduldig, was uns der EIS sagen kann und was nicht und wie es sonst so um die Zukunftsfähigkeit der österreichischen Forschungslandschaft bestellt ist. WPZ Research ist als kleines unabhängiges Forschungsinstitut auch deshalb besonders, weil es zur DNA gehört, das...

1 month ago

35 minutes

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REvaluation Special #7: What skills does the next generation of evaluators need?

There is a generation shift in the community going on and in the dynamic landscape of research and innovation, the perspectives of the next generation are crucial for shaping future policies and practices. In this panel we tried to bring together younger researchers and evaluators and senior counterparts to discuss the challenge, demands and future directions of innovation research and policy evaluation. Panellists Florian Bayer, Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of Vi...

5 months ago

50 minutes

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REvaluation Special #6: Are we all metascientists now, James Wilsdon?

Motivated by evidence based scientists doing gut-based science policy, and by science policy maker acknowleding the faults of the system when they leave it rather than when they can still do something about it, James Wilsdon of RoRI turned his attention towards meta science in this REvaluation 2024 keynote. Meta Science, Meta Research, Science of Science, Research of Research are all the same, and not new, but new things are going on. Applying robust methods to understanding, analysing and im...

5 months ago

48 minutes

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REvaluation Special #5: How to fund transdisciplinarity?

There is momentum in the research community with regard to trandisciplinary research (TDR) and research funding, because societal transformation necessitates more complex solutions; but at the same time, the notion that research happens more and more within disciplines, and not across disciplines or in a transdisciplinary way. The panel discusses challenges, but also opportunities TDR provides and tackles questions and opportunities on reasons to fund TDR and how to achieve impact, and on rel...

5 months ago

42 minutes

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REvaluation Special #4: How do you measure impact at your ministry, Henriette Spyra?

Henriette Spyra explains how the back then Austrian Federal Ministry for Climate Action implements a transformative Innovation Policy since 2021. RTI is one, but not the only one, policy that contributes to transformative change. Climate neutrality, competitiveness and sovereignty as well as resilience, security and well-being need nowadays a broad innovation approach and system view. The Ministry redesigned and focusses its thematic priorities, introduced new instruments and broadened its in...

5 months ago

41 minutes

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REvaluation Special #3: Peer Review in Transition

Peer review is a central instrument for the self-governance of the scientific community and for legitimizing e.g. funding decisions made towards both scolars and society. However, it is intransparent and time-consuming, especially so because more and more publications are produced. Therefore, the need to increase its quality and reliability was often recognized in the past years. Today, additional challenges have emerged such as generative AI, the occurance of predatory journals, paper/review...

5 months ago

51 minutes

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REvaluation Special #2: Does AI really save work in evaluation, Linda Raftree?

Interest in artificial intelligence (AI) has been growing among the monitoring, evaluation, research and learning (MERL) community over the past decade. Yet AI adoption has been hampered by lack of data science capacities, low trust in AI, ethical concerns, affordability, absence of applicable use cases, and multiple other barriers. The public release of mainstream Generative AI (GenAI) applications, beginning with ChatGPT in late 2022, changed the game. GenAI and natural language processing ...

5 months ago

36 minutes

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REvaluation Special #1: Can we just have more causal methods in the evaluation of innovation and research policies?

Whether it is business innovation or basic research, new quantitative methods or new micro-level and register data open up opportunities to investigate the relationships between policies and their intended effects. The aim of the panel is to facilitate an exchange on methods and data for causal evaluation in various innovation and research policies. Which opportunities can we identify, which challenges remain for an increased use of these methodological approaches in evaluations in the medium...

5 months ago

55 minutes

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Folge 22 - Brigitte Tiefenthaler evaluiert Österreichs Beitrag zum "EU Binnenmarkt für Forschung"

Brigitte Tiefenthaler hat schon an ganz unterschiedlichen Stationen im FTI-System gearbeitet, seit 2007 ist sie Beraterin bei Technopolis in Wien. Sie beschäftigt sich besonders gerne mit Fragen der Transformation und der Partizipation. So kommt es nicht ungelegen, dass der Österreichische Aktionsplan für den Europäischen Forschungsraum (ERA-NAP) 2022-2025 ebenfalls mit Hilfe von Konsultationen entstanden ist. Wie man so einen Aktionsplan evaluiert, erfahren wir in dieser Podcastfolge. Wer ...

10 months ago

43 minutes

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Folge 21 - Evaluierung auf lokaler, nationaler und europäischer Ebene: im Gespräch mit Angelika Sauer-Malin

Angelika Sauer-Malin ist Forscherin und Evaluatorin im Bereich POLICIES bei Joanneum Research in Graz. In dieser Podcastfolge erzählt sie über ihre Arbeit als Evaluator:in auf lokaler, nationaler und europäischer Ebene und was sie damit bisher bewirken konnte. Wir lernen, welche Skills Evaluator:innen mitbringen müssen, wie man eine anstatt einer "Beurteilungs-" eine Lernatmosphäre schaffen kann und womit sich in ihre Abteilung sonst so beschäftigt. Für die Plattform fteval wünscht sie sich e...

1 year ago

29 minutes

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Folge 20 - Qualität auf die grüne Wiese planen: Die Neugründung der IT:U

Für diese Folge haben Tobias und Isabella die neu gegründete IT:U in Linz besucht und Stefanie Lietze und Gerd Krizek gefragt, wie sie ihr Qualitätssicherungssytem komplett von Anfang an aufbauen. Wir lernen, dass die "Digitaluni" sehr wohl analoge Lehr-/Lernlabore betreibt, wie die Kriterien Interdisziplinarität, Digitalisierung und Transformation gelebt und beforscht werden und so "21st Century Skills" vermittelt werden sollen. Link zur IT:U - interdisciplinary transformation universi...

1 year ago

54 minutes

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Folge 19 - Wie fördert man transdisziplinäre Forschung, Petra Biberhofer?

Der Schwerpunkt dieser Podcastfolge ist transdisziplinäre Forschung und wie man sie fördern kann. Dazu haben wir Petra Biberhofer vom FWF interviewt. Sie ist für die Programme #ConnectingMinds und Emerging Fields zuständig. Warum der FWF entschieden hat, nicht-traditionelle Stakeholder in Forschungsprojekte einzubinden und wie das funktionieren soll, wird genauso besprochen, wie das entstandene ko-kreierte Wissen für alle nutzbar werden kann und welche speziellen Anforderungen Transdisziplina...

1 year ago

41 minutes

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Episode 18 - How plurality strengthens evaluation: interview with May Pettigrew about the EES Autumn Event

This time we take the opportunity to share our take-aways from the 2023 Autumn Event by the European Evaluation Society (EES) under the Motto "Alternative Futures: What role for evaluation in a just transition?". As our interview guest, we invited May Pettigrew, EES Vice Chair and main organiser of the Autumn Event to discuss with us the impressions we had. We chat about the diversity of contributions to this online conference, learn how plurality is key for just transitions as well as ...

1 year ago

57 minutes

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Folge 17 - ***Weihnachtsfolge*** Wünsche ans FTI-Politik Christkind

Als kleines Geschenk von der und für die Community haben wir in diesem Jahr eine Weihnachtsfolge aufgezeichnet! Wir haben jene, die uns in den letzten Wochen und Monaten vor's Mikrofon gekommen sind, gefragt, was ihr Wunsch als Christkind für FTI-Politik ist. Viel Spaß mit der Weihnachtsfolge und gute Unterhaltung mit den Wünschen unserer Betragenden!Susanne Bührer, Fraunhofer ISINeil Brown, Technopolis Group | UKFlorentine Frantz, Technopolis Group | AustriaHans Holzinger, Sc...

1 year ago

27 minutes

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Episode 16 - Community Science as a Place for Communities to learn: Interview with Emilio Velis

This episode completes our little series about participation that started with Episode 15 . We take a closer look at participation in the context of open innovation processes using the example of “Appropedia”, a wiki-based ontology that was itself developed in a participatory manner. In this interview with Emilio Velis, we learn that participatory projects must always give the community involved the opportunity to learn.LinksEmilio Velis: https://emiliovelis.com/about/Appropedia Foundation: ...

1 year ago

25 minutes

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Episode 15 - Planning Impact Together: Katja Mayer on Participatory Evaluation

Katja Mayer gives fascinating insights into participatory methods for evaluation, with a particular focus on evaluating science projects that themselves have participatory elements. We learn that it is a challenge for scientists to suddenly be moderators of a complex debate and mediators of group dynamics. But we also learn how this can be tackled and how a participatory process can be democratising rather than exploiting. Also, participation does not mean to include everybody, but to get rep...

1 year ago

1 hour

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Episode 14 - Research Infrastructures as a Life Commitment

In this episode, we look at the question of how to evaluate large research infrastructures – from the Large Hadron Collider to the European Social Survey. We conducted a very exciting online interview with our colleagues Neil Brown and Peter Kolarz from Technopolis Group | UK. We learnt that a new research infrastructure is like a life commitment and that you have to immerse yourself in order to understand the effects on all dimensions. Neil BrownPeter KolarzImpact page of the European S...

1 year ago

57 minutes