Services to the government

BOF (Bijzonder Onderzoeksfonds)

Next to other resourch agencies such as FWO-Vlaanderen, the Bijzonder Onderzoeksfonds (BOF) is an important financial resource for stimulating academic scientific research, i.e. research initiated by the scholar. The BOF-key is an interuniversity distributing mechanism providing the universities with significant financial resources that can further be allocated to large (the so-called GOAs) and smaller research projects through a proper internal selection screening based on peer-review of competitive project applications.

CIS Survey

At the European Council of Lisbon in 2000 the European Union set a high goal for the future: “to become the most competitive economy in the world, capable of durable economic growth, with more and better jobs and a tighter social cohesion” (Commission of the European Communities, September 2000).
 

IOF (Industrieel Onderzoeksfonds)

The establishment of the Industrial research fund (IOF) was an initiative of the Flemish government. The main goals of this  fund are aimed  at the  valorization of the university knowledge in the form of community and/or commercial applications. The Flemish government budgeted a large amount to be used by the Flemish universities to make a substantial contribution to this goal. The budget are distributed among the universities on the basis of several parameters related to valorization for instance industrial projects, EU-projects, spin-offs, patents, doctoral dissertation. 
 

R&D Survey

Stimulating research and development (R&D) and innovation is central to the Flemish government policies. In 2003 Flanders signed the Innovation Pact, thereby endorsing the European Lisbon strategy and the Barcelona-goals to increase R&D expenditure to 3% of the GDRP (Gross Domestic Regional Product). The ambition to attain this norm was reaffirmed with the signing of the 2020 Pact on January 20th, 2009, in Hasselt.

VABB-SHW

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