The Joint Institute for Innovation Policy (JIIP) is a joint venture of four well-renowned Research and Technology Organisations (RTOs) from four different European countries: TNO (The Netherlands), VTT (Finland), Joanneum Research (Austria) and Tecnalia (Spain). It was established in April 2008 on the basis of a consortium agreement and became a legal entity in May 2012. JIIP provides intelligence to support policy-making with a focus on research and innovation policy. One of the competitive strengths of the partnership lies in the interdisciplinary nature of its mother institutes and the subsequent cross-over and added value for the services JIIP can offer and deliver. The partnership involves a core pool of around 170 researchers in relevant units of the four partner organisations. A central office located in Brussels coordinates the joint activities and steers the further strategic development of the partnerships. The core competences and services lie in the following areas:
- Policy analysis : evaluation of policy initiatives and programmes; impact assessments; policy monitoring; policy development;
- Analysis of innovation dynamics and systems : sectoral innovation dynamics; national/regional innovation systems;
- innovation-related economic analyses;
- Forward-looking activities : foresight; forecast; technology assessment; horizon scanning;
- Data and indicators : data collection; data analysis; and research on indicators.
