Evaluation of the IDE (Business Doctors' Incorporation) Action ; Evaluación de la Acción IDE (Incorporación de Doctores a Empresas)
Published as: Evaluation of the Business Teachers' Incorporation Action (IDE), Madrid: Cotec Foundation for Technological Innovation, 2004 The incorporation of doctoral candidates into companies is considered to be a very appropriate measure to raise the technological level of the productive fabric. The development acquired by the public R & D system in the 90s suggested that the doctors he had trained could meet not only the demand of the system itself, but also an incipient need from the business sector, which had not yet emerged. On the basis of the above assumptions, Cotec strongly supported, between mid-1997 and the end of 2001, the launch and development by the General State Administration of the Action for the integration of doctoral candidates in enterprises (IDE), with the primary aim of stimulating the improvement and start of technological innovation activities in companies. As a first technology policy evaluation exercise, after the completion of the IDE Action and replaced by the Torres Quevedo programme, an analysis was carried out in order to gain useful experience for similar programmes in the future. The study shows widespread satisfaction, both among the companies and among the doctors involved, as well as the high rate of doctors who continued in the business environment with open-ended contracts. This study, in the context of evaluating and monitoring the actions of the National R & D & I Plan, has been jointly promoted by the Directorate-General for Research and the Secretariat-General for Science Policy of the Ministry of Science and Technology and has been funded by the Cotec Foundation. ; Peer reviewed ; Published as: Evaluation of the Business Teachers' Incorporation Action (IDE), Madrid: Cotec Foundation for Technological Innovation, 2004 The incorporation of doctoral candidates into companies is considered to be a very appropriate measure to raise the technological level of the productive fabric. The development acquired by the public R & D system in the 90s suggested ...