RISIS is enlarging its datasets family launching ESID, European Social Innovation Database that utilizes advanced machine learning and natural language processing techniques. RISIS ESID is a comprehensive and authoritative source of information on social innovation projects and actors in Europe and beyond. The main goal: to collect information about social innovation projects and actors from the publicly available information on the web. ESID also uses limited human annotation to train its machine learning models and…
The seventh RISIS Research Seminar will take place on 10 March from 12:30 am to 2:00 pm (CET) and will focus on the role of large multinational firms (LMF) in the knowledge dynamics of Metropolitan Areas. with a presentation of Patricia Laurens and Philippe Larédo, Université Gustave Eiffel. Dr. Gaston Heimeriks, Utrecht University, is involved as a discussant. There has been extensive work about the role of universities and more widely public sector research. Numerous works have studied the relationship between…
Call for application for the course Advanced Benchmarking Models and Techniques is now open. Deadline for a request of participation: 10 of March 2021 The course is organized by the DIAG Department of Sapienza University of Rome and will take place on the Meet Platform 22-25-29 March 2021. Given their high flexibility and the recent developments introduced in the methodological literature, quantitative benchmarking techniques are suited for being applied to all the different datasets available and that will be developed…
On 28th January, KNOWMAK tool was illustrated by Thomas Scherngell, AIT (Austrian Institute of Technology) one of the main partners of RISIS, at the 3rd edition of Winter School organized by ERSA (European Regional Science Association) in collaboration with the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (Seville). The laboratory Tools & Data for Smart Specialisation aimed to present through three different cases how a quantitative approach can be used to address policy questions coming from the…
The COVID-19 pandemic emergency don't stop the strong willingness to meet and focus on the results achieved, planning next actions, in terms of research, strategic approach, communication, dissemination and evaluation. From 25th to 29th January 2021, the 18 RISIS project partners coordinated by Dr Philippe Laredo, Université Gustave Eiffel, will meet virtually on ZOOM platform to discuss about achievements and plan next strategic actions. 4 plenary sessions and a roundtable. It will mix demonstrations…
