Collaboration patterns in different European Funding Frames: The case of the European Framework Programme (FP) and EUREKA

The investigation of the evolution of the European Research Area (ERA) has attracted burst of attention in the recent past, not only in the scientific, but also in a policy context. From a policy perspective, it is of great relevance to account for the manifold structure of European and transnational research funding frames and their characteristics. As an interesting example, this policy brief focuses – based on advancements of the EUPRO databases within the RISIS project – on the comparison of characteristics and collaboration patterns of two funding frames in order to get some clue on the complementarity between integrated (FP) and coordinated instruments (EUREKA).