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Valorisation has been a topic that has attracted special interest in the Netherlands for years. Especially the observation that the excellent research infrastructure is not accompanied by excellent innovative performance has traditionally been a reason to give significant policy attention to valorisation. The Ministries of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy (EZK) and Education, Culture, and Science (OCW) are taking various measures to promote more intensive use of existing knowledge.
One of the initiatives is the Valorisation Programme, running from 2010 to 2018. Through this programme, 12 regional consortia have been involved in activities such as entrepreneurship education and knowledge transfer. Dialogic has been commissioned to carry out the final evaluation of the programme. The evaluation shows that the policy was effective in allowing the consortia to develop valorisation activities that fit the local context. While this led to more and better support for knowledge utilization, there are also indications that the professionalized activities are now facing financial pressure. The recommendations of the final evaluation outline the roles that various parties can play in continuing the valorisation structures established through the programme.
The final evaluation was presented to the House of Representatives on 4th of July 2018.
Read the policy response from State Secretary Keijzer (EZK) and Minister Van Engelshoven (OCW) dated 11 December 2018 here.
