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Fraunhofer future markets: From global challenges to dedicated, technological, collaborative research projects

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  • Kerstin Cuhls
  • Alexander Bunkowski
  • Lothar Behlau

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One urgent mission for European research is to focus on the grand challenges of our time. We discuss how this mission was incorporated into a Fraunhofer corporate programme that takes on global challenges by stimulating collaborative research projects across knowledge domains. Fraunhofer's mission is to conduct innovation-oriented research for the benefit of private and public enterprises as well as society in general. As a decentralised organisation, Fraunhofer's strategic R&D planning predominantly takes place at the level of its 60 institutes and its six groups of institutes, each with similar technological scope. At the corporate level, Fraunhofer complements these strategic planning activities with a process to identify and strategically develop research themes across its institutes. In this paper, we address the question of global challenges, their definition, why and how Fraunhofer can best direct its overarching research topics towards solutions for some of the global challenges. Copyright The Author 2012. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com, Oxford University Press.

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  • Kerstin Cuhls & Alexander Bunkowski & Lothar Behlau, 2012. "Fraunhofer future markets: From global challenges to dedicated, technological, collaborative research projects," Science and Public Policy, Oxford University Press, vol. 39(2), pages 232-244, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:scippl:v:39:y:2012:i:2:p:232-244
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    1. Stephen Brammer & Layla Branicki & Martina Linnenluecke & Tom Smith, 2019. "Grand challenges in management research: Attributes, achievements, and advancement," Australian Journal of Management, Australian School of Business, vol. 44(4), pages 517-533, November.
    2. Santos, João M. & Horta, Hugo & Heitor, Manuel, 2016. "Too many PhDs? An invalid argument for countries developing their scientific and academic systems: The case of Portugal," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 113(PB), pages 352-362.
    3. Gattringer, Regina & Wiener, Melanie & Strehl, Franz, 2017. "The challenge of partner selection in collaborative foresight projects," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 120(C), pages 298-310.

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