An article about the EUPRO database developed at AIT was recently published in the current "Nature Scientific Data" journal. "Nature Scientific Data" is the most renowned international journal for instruments for empirical science and thus presents the EUPRO database as an international standard and central reference in the field of empirical innovation research for analysing project-based R&D activities and networks.
Not only the authors Thomas Scherngell, Michael Barber, Anna Wolfmayr and Xheneta Bilalli-Shkodra were involved in the development of the database. It is the result of almost 15 years of development work at the AIT Center for Innovation Systems & Policy.
The EUPRO database enables the analysis of participation patterns of organisations in and across different European R&D funding initiatives and the investigation of resulting collaborative R&D network structures and dynamics. The perimeter of EUPRO is currently more than 600,000 R&D projects funded by European (EU, transnational or national) research funding organisations, comprising systematic information about contents (e.g. contribution to Sustainable Development Goals) of the R&D projects, their participating organizations (including organisation type and location), and a number of additional characteristics (e.g. underlying policy instrument and programme).