Wirkungsmonitoring der FFG Förderungen 2021  Unternehmen und Forschungseinrichtungen

Kaufmann, Joachim; Kaufmann, Peter

doi:10.22163/fteval.2022.579

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“…Furthermore, since the proposed application of the framework does not require a formalised quantification of climate impacts, companies may still be tempted to exaggerate the potential contribution of their R&I activity to climate change mitigation in their funding applications. Finally, the very nature of R&I means that not all (technological) objectives of a project will necessarily be achieved in the long term, as the FFG's annual impact monitoring reports show [75]. As such, the use of the framework does not mean that the expected climate impacts described by companies in their project proposals can or will be fully realised.…”

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A Framework for Assessing the Climate Impacts of Research and Innovation Projects and Programmes

Martinuzzi,

Hametner,

Windsperger

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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Public spending on research and innovation (R&I) to tackle grand societal challenges, such as climate change, is increasing. Consequently, research funding organisations face an ever-growing demand to demonstrate the social return of their investments. However, tools and frameworks that facilitate the description and assessment of the climate impacts of R&I activities are largely lacking. The present paper addresses this gap by conducting a comparative case analysis of corporate R&I projects co-funded by a thematically open R&I funding programme with the aim of identifying the key impact pathways. Data for the cases were collected through document analysis and video interviews. The results show that assessments of the climate impacts of R&I need to take into account the expected change in technology maturity and the impacts that are caused up- and downstream in a company’s value chain. The results serve as a basis for the development of a framework for the ex-ante assessment of climate impacts of public R&I programmes. A series of workshops with research funders, companies, and evaluation experts helped refine and validate the framework and ensure its real-world applicability. The framework provides proposal writers and evaluators with a pragmatic and easy-to-use orientation tool for describing and assessing the climate impacts of a planned R&I activity during the proposal evaluation stage. It therefore supports a more systematic and systemic assessment of R&I impacts that can help funding organisations better address the challenges of climate change.

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confidence: 99%