Closing the gap between research and projects in climate change innovation in Europe

Francesca Larosa, Jaroslav Mysiak, Marco Molinari, Panagiotis Varelas, Haluk Akay, Will McDowall, Catalina Spadaru, Francesco Fuso-Nerini and Ricardo Vinuesa

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Abstract: Innovation is a key component to equip our society with tools to adapt to new climatic conditions. The development of research-action interfaces shifts useful ideas into operationalized knowledge allowing innovation to flourish. In this paper we quantify the existing gap between climate research and innovation action in Europe using a novel framework that combines artificial intelligence (AI) methods and network science. We compute the distance between key topics of research interest from peer review publications and core issues tackled by innovation projects funded by the most recent European framework programmes. Our findings reveal significant differences exist between and within the two layers. Economic incentives, agricultural and industrial processes are differently connected to adaptation and mitigation priorities. We also find a loose research-action connection in bioproducts, biotechnologies and risk assessment practices, where applications are still too few compared to the research insights. Our analysis supports policy-makers to measure and track how research funding result in innovation action, and to adjust decisions if stated priorities are not achieved.

Keywords: climate innovation; natural language processing; knwoledge production (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H54 O32 O33 O38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023, Revised 2023
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