Prof. Indrikis Muiznieks; BIRTI Vice Council Rector for Research members of the University of Latvia;

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1 Baltic Baltic Institute of of Research, Technology and and Innovation platform for cooperation Future Technologies for Better Quality of Life Future technologies for life quality Prof. Indrikis Muiznieks; BIRTI Vice Council Rector for Research members of the University of Latvia; Chairman 28. of 08. the BIRTI Council

2 BIRTI Non Governmental Organization in Latvia, an association of the leading universities, research institutions, hospitals, municipalities and innovation-oriented businesses aiming to coordinate and promote the interests of its members in E&R&D&I resource development through bottom-up activities and open measures of coordination contributing to the (a) development and monitoring of the national RIS 3 policy framework; (b) design of the programs and preliminary screening of the projects for the forthcoming EU planning period; (c) promotion of the dialog between stake-holders in Latvia, in the Baltic Countries. BSR and with EU authorities. BIRTI an instrument for building the Stairway to Excellence in Latvia considering the development of BSR

3 Cohesion Policy of the EU for : concentrating resources to maximize impact; 44% of the ERDF contribution in less developed countries shall be invested in RDI and to foster the competitiveness of SMEs; creating synergies with Horizon 2020 through the development of regional hubs of E&R&D&I resources: Stairway to Exellence. Ex ante conditionality Approved Research and Innovation Strategic Policy Framework for Smart Specialization (RIS 3).

4 Cohesion Policy in Latvia : Strengths: initial investments in revitalization of the research infrastructure and development of the human resources; Weakness: ongoing fragmentation of R&D infrastructure; insufficient cooperation between business and academia; weak commercialization of the research; lacking infrastructure for technology transfer insufficient returns from research for the industry and economy.

5 Assessment of the Research Supply availability and qualification of human resources; quality of research publications; presence of the intellectual property; unique expertise, infrastructure, resources; synergies with other fields of research; demand and absorption capacity on the business side; potential to create innovation; experience of industrial & research cooperation.

6 Aavailability and qualification of human resources Share of the population aged who have completed tertiary education (ISCED level 5-6) LV -35,7%, LT- 45,4%, EE- 40,3%, ES 27-34,6% (2011) PhD students per inhabitants (ISCED level 6) LV- 2,15; LT -2,92; EE -2,65 New doctorate graduates in Latvia (ISCED 6) by research areas in period Agriculture Medicine Arts & Humanities Natural Sciences Technology Social Sciences

7 Bibliometric Analysis of Research Publications Baltic Sea region countries, EU members: Latvia (LV), Lithuania (LT), Estonia (EE), Poland (PL), Denmark (DK), Sweden (S), Finland (FIN), Germany (D) Period and ;. Data: Scopus, Scimago. Initial data: number of published documents in Research Fields (Subject Areas) and Research Branches (Subject Categories) per country; number of citations referring the documents in Subject Areas and Subject Categories per country.

8 jj Bibliometric Analysis of Research Publications Relative Intensity of Publications (PI) and Citation (CI): an OECD methodology to characterize Research Specialization AI = the proportion of the research papers in the Subject Area from Latvia ( ) within the number research papers in the Subject Area from BSR countries ( ) vs the same proportion within total number of research papers in Latvia ( ) and in the Region ( ). Additional criteria to characterize the small sets of publications: Research visibility (R vis): relative density of citations R vis = CI^2 Research volume (R vol): logarithm of the amount of publication and citation number R vol = log (N Publ + N Cit) Index of Specialization (IS) integral characterization of the research performance in Subject Area or Subject Category. IS = R vis + R vol

9 Bibliometric Analysis of Research Publications jj

10 Engineering 1,09 4,32 Biomedical Engineering 5,38 Computational Mechanics ,13 5, ,16 5,38 13,46 13,04 4,32 12,39 11,43 5, ,30 3,19 2,78 2,29 5 6,13 0 2,78 2,29 3,30 SE8 FI DK DE LT PL LV EE ,19 5,20 3,45 2,01 DK SE DE LV FI EE PL LT 6,29 6,08 5,19 4,47 4,12 3,54 2,62 1,61 SE DE DK PL LV FI LT EE Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,53 6,18 4,29 3,74 3,70 3,49 3,46 2,09 LV SE DK PL FI LT DE EE

11 Materials Science Electronic, Biomaterials Optical and 4 Magnetic Materials 2 0 4, ,91 7,42 24,71 12, ,09 5,94 5, ,68 5,24 7,97 5,09 4,72 7,42 4, ,09 14,59 12,85 11,88 6,60 6,09 6,06 8,86 5,77 DE 0 LV SE PL LT FI DK EE 4,691 4,51 3,41 4,40 1,31 LV DE SE FI DK PL EE LT LV DE SE LT PL DK EE FI 5,24 7,91 1,09 Ceramics and Metals Composites and Alloys ,56 21,77 5,46 5,14 4,96 5,94 3,81 2,77 2,76 2,65 6,46 6,10 5,44 4,55 4,10 3,05 2,85 LV LV PL PL DE DE SE SELT DK DK EE FI EE LT FI

12 Medicine 1,09 8,95 Cardiology and cardiovascular medicine 14,36 Gastroenterology ,84 13,68 13,38 11,85 10,86 14, ,65 9,20 9,20 8,95 5 6,34 6,26 11,36 0 4,78 3,75 6,26 DK SE FI DE EE LV PL LT ,78 6,63 6,34 5,35 3,23 SE DK LV FI DE PL LT EE 15,31 13,70 11,37 9,29 8,23 6,75 4,98 3,86 SE DK DE LV FI LT PL EE 47,91 3,75 Medical Microbiology ,18 16,64 16,03 10,87 10,76 8,47 5,84 LV DK EE SE FI DE LT PL

13 Bibliometric Analysis of Patent Literature (EPO, ) Specific Patenting Volume Field of technology (1) LV LT EE PL DK SE FI DE Computer technology Optics Measurement Analysis of biological materials Control Medical technology Organic fine chemistry Biotechnology Pharmaceuticals Food chemistry Basic materials chemistry Materials, metallurgy Chemical engineering Environmental technology Civil engineering

14 jj The unique infrastructure objects in the Baltic States Regional Partner Facility candidates for the ESFRI objects Research and former Nuclear reactor campus in Salaspils: Center for nuclear technologies, magnetohydrodynamics (Ampere Institute) Euratom; European Spallation Source,(ESS), Extreme Light Infrastructure, (ELI); Latvian Stem Cell Transplantation Center European Advanced Translational Research Infrastructure in Medicine (EATRIS) ; National Biobank depository, Latvian Microbial Strain Depositary Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure; Microbial Resource Research Infrastructure (BBMRI, MIRRI); the ICT supported network of space observation instruments (radiotelescope facility in Irbene, Schmidt telescope in Baldone; stationar and mobile laser telescope stations in Riga PRACE, EPOS

15 Latvian Areas of Specialization, Life Sciences, Medicine and Chemistry Bioengineering 3 Biomedical Engineering 1 Biomaterials 2,5 Biotechnology 3 Virology 2,5 Horticulture 1 Medical Microbiology 1 Immunology & Allergy 1 Cardiology & cardiovascular medicine 2 Gastroenterology 2,5 Rheumathology 2 Surgery 3 Health Professions 2,5 Veterinary, general 2,5 Organic Chemistry 3 Pharmacology 3,5 Subject Category Specialization Index (average rank for Baltic States and BSR)

16 Research Competence applied in the development of: Human and veterinary drug construction; Molecular and individualized diagnostic and treatment methods; Functional foods and medical cosmetics; Pharmaceutical chemical technology and biotechnology; Diagnostic technologies.

17 Latvian Areas of Specialization, Physics, Materials Sciences, Chemistry, Energy Materials Science, general 1,5 Ceramics and Composites 1 Condensed Matter Physics 1,5 Electronic Optical and Magnetic Materials 1 Nuclear Energy 3 Radiation 2 Inorganic Chemistry 3 Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 3 Statistics and Probability 1,5 Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty 1 Subject Category Specialization Index (average rank for Baltic States and BSR)

18 Research Competence applied in the development of: Functional materials for electronics and photonics; Nano-composites and ceramics; Thin layer and coating technologies; Radiation Chemistry and Nuclear Medicine; Magnetic Fluid Technologies

19 Latvian Areas of Specialization, Engineering, ICT, Applied Mathematics Bioengineering 3 Biomedical Engineering 1 Biomaterials 2,5 Artificial Intelligence 1,5 Comptutational Theory and Mathematics 2,5 Computational Mechanics 3 Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 3 Statistics and Probability 1,5 Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty 1 Theoretical and Computer Science 2,5 Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 1 Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes 3 Metals and Alloys 1 Oceanography 2,5 Subject Category Specialization Index (average rank for Baltic States and BSR)

20 Research Competence applied in the development of: Mechatronics; Cyber-physical systems; Smart Materials; Intelligent energy and water technologies; Aeronautics and Space Technologies.

21 jj Development of the Education, Research and Technology Transfer Infrastructure (I) Projects: Interdisciplinary Applied Research and Study Centre in Life Sciences establishment of research and innovation hub for the development of Life Science products and Regenerative Medicine technologies, assessment of their efficacy and quality, provision of academic, professional, life-long and informal learning in relevant research fields. Education, Research and Technology Transfer Centre for the Innovative Production and Applications of Sustainable High Energy Sources I concentrated E&R&D&I infrastructure for boosting inter-connected research and innovation cycle in Mangetohydrodynamics and Radiation Chemistry, and Fluid Flow modeling, which will support advancement of the research accomplishments towards technology transfer and industrial applications in Nuclear Energetics, Metallurgy and Mechanical Engineering.

22 jj Development of the Education, Research and Technology Transfer Infrastructure (II) Smart engineering and ICT Centere a bundle of the Scienca and Technology Park with a Business Incubator for the development of novel transportation and exploration vehicles, their parts, civil and industrial engineering products, operating on the basis of embedded, remotely steered, energy saving and environmental friendly technologies. Outputs: (1) new companies; (2) new technologies, patents; (3) new specialists; (4) highly influential research papers; (5) international exchange of researchers and students; (6) projectc applications for Horizon 2020, Euratom, EIT, etc. Results: (1) increase of the average innovation and export potential; (2) new jobs in profiling and supporting service industries; (3) decrease of the mortality from complex diseases like infarct, cancer, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, etc; (4) increase of the life quality through the implementation of Civil Engineering construction blocks and Smart Materials developed witth the the use of embedded technologies; (5) increase of the international competitiveness and added value of the established export products and services; (6) success in EU excellenence programs,.

23 BIRTI in the context of Baltic Sea Region strategy: a Flagship Project PhD programs Innovation Prototipes output Cooperation in innovation and education projects could result in becoming flagship in Baltic Sea region Action plan

24 Thank You!