EIRIMS

EIRIMS has at its core an indicator system which helps people managing RTI system at national or European level to monitor evolving trends in industrial research and innovation. Although EIRIMS is based on publicly available data it should none the less indicate systems changes as early as possible. Thus EIRIMS has to suggest ways to optimise the time lag between data collection and exploitation and to select a concise set of indicators which measure the main dimensions of industrial research and innovation activities. While the first objective concerns issues which are largely beyond the control of the involved expert the second issue should be far closer to what they can deliver. Every