welcome to the website of Expertisecentrum O&O Monitoring

Expertisecentrum O&O Monitoring (Centre for R&D Monitoring, ECOOM) is an interuniversity consortium with participation of all Flemish universities (K.U.Leuven, UGent, VUB, UA and UHasselt). Its mission is to develop a consistent system of R&D and Innovation (RD&I) indicators for the Flemish government. This indicator system has to assist the Flemish government in mapping and monitoring the RD&I efforts in the Flemish region.

The activity of ECOOM underscores the ambition of the Flemish government to consolidate and to further develop its position as a European innovation intensive region. To serve this ambition, a well-developed RD&I indicator system is needed. This is the challenge the Flemish government has taken on, together with Expertisecentrum O&O Monitoring. To this end, ECOOM collaborates intensely with all relevant actors in the Flemish RD&I system: universities, research institutes and industry. The government agencies EWI and IWT are our close partners.

This website provides you with an overview of the activities of Expertisecentrum O&O Monitoring. You will find detailed information on our major tasks, you will be able to download research reports and studies and you will have access to publicly available RD&I statistics for Flanders. Together with all collaborators of ECOOM, we wish you an interesting journey at our website and we are of course most willing to provide you with additional information on any of our activities.

Koenraad Debackere (Promotor-Coordinator, K.U. Leuven)
Wolfgang Glänzel (Director, K.U. Leuven)
Reinhilde Veugelers (K.U. Leuven)
Peter Marynen (K.U. Leuven)
Ignace Lemahieu (UGent)
Ronan van Rossem (UGent)
Lode Wyns(VUB)
Jean-Pierre Timmermans (UA)
Paul Janssen (UHasselt)
(Promotors of Expertisecentrum O&O Monitoring)