The Internationalisation of Research and Technology Organisations

In the last decades, Research and Technology Organisations (RTOs) have progressively extended the scope of their activities outside their country of origin to produce high impact R&I. The aim of this policy brief is to come to a guiding document for RTOs to engage in the process of internationalisation and to provide benchmarks to policy makers dealing with the governance and funding of RTOs. This report builds both on insights from the academic literature and practical experiences of RTOs. The main empirical input for this report stems from a joint workshop organised by the JRC and EARTO on 21 June 2016.