Narrative: Romanian Public R&D System in 2020

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Background

Key stakeholders were interviewed in order to determine possible Focus Themes for the foresight exercise.
A Future Workshop was organized. The objective was to determine a set of Focus Themes from the data collected during the interviews. The participants were decision-makers and futurists. Five Focus Themes were identified:

An online survey was used in order to collect data on possible Directions for Investigation within each Focus Theme.
The data were clustered, and initial lists of possible Directions for Investigation were produced for each Focus Theme.

Figure 4: The script of a generic Negotiation Workshop

The Negotiation Workshop Goal: select (m) statements , balanced among (p) categories, from a larger set on (n) visionary statements Preliminaries: a large number of statements about the future are collected, grouped and merged into (n) visionary statements; the (n) visionary statements are further grouped into (p) clusters Participants: 60-100 people, representing a diversity of actors (research system, public administration, private interests, civic society, …); (p/2) groups are formed, respecting diversity in participation, according to participants’ interests in 2 clusters

Table: *Focus Themes* and priority *Fields of Innovation*
INFORMATION SOCIETY TECHNOLOGIES	Theoretical Informatics and Computer Science Advanced Information Systems for e-Services Communication Technologies, Systems, and Infrastructures Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Advanced Systems Information Systems Security and Accessibility Technologies for Ambient and Distributed Systems Nano-electronics, Photonics, and micro-nano Integrated Systems
COMPETITIVENESS THROUGH INNOVATION	Advanced Materials Biotechnologies for Agriculture, Food Industry and Health Advanced Technologies for Industrial Process Control Innovative Products and Technologies for Transportation Technologies for High-Precision Mechanical Products and Mecatronics New Methods for Management, Marketing and Enterprise Development
QUALITY OF LIFE	Quality of Education Quality of Health Quality of Living Quality of Working Conditions
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DYNAMICS	Human, Social, and Cultural Capital Material/Immaterial Patrimony – Cultural Tourism. Creative Industries Social Inequalities. Regional Disparities Technology, Organization and Cultural Change
ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT	Methods and Procedures for Reducing Environmental Pollution Sustainable Energy Systems and Technologies. Energetic Security Territorial Planning. Infrastructure and Utilities. Waste Management System, Products Life-cycle Analysis, Eco-efficiency Ecological Protection and Reconstruction of Endangered Areas