Funding research in e-services for Public Administrations

VINNOVA, the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems, has a running programme on e-services in Public Administration. It funds research/action oriented research and development (R&D). VINNOVA acts to support the innovation system for the public sector and work with the Triple Helix model. VINNOVA has invested 40 M SEK in 12 projects.With additional money from the project partners in total 100 M SEK are invested.

Policy Context

The Government has assigned VINNOVA to: - make Sweden a leading research nation in which research of high scientific quality is conducted. - promote sustainable growth and increased employment by acting to increase competitiveness and the emergence and expansion of successful companies. - support research and development work of the highest quality in areas such as engineering, transport, communications and working life in order to promote renewal and sustainable growth. - stimulate Swedish participation in European and international R&D collaboration and in the exchange of experience in the field of innovation.

Description of target users and groups

citizens, PAs, businesses

Return on investment

Return on investment: Not applicable / Not available

Lessons learnt

Lesson 1 - Importance of developing networks between policy managers, researchers and businesses. Lesson 2 - Importance of interdisciplinary , action-oriented research. Lesson 3 - Importance of communicate results. Scope: Local (city or municipality), National, Regional (sub-national)