ENID and CWTS Leiden organise from 2010 onwards the STI Indicators Conference Series: the aim of the conference series is to provide a forum for discussion an advances in STI indicators around the notion of positioning indicators and focusing on new emerging areas, as well as on the development of advanced methdologies for STI indicators. Besides scholarly presentations, the conference series aims also to promote networking and cooperation between researchers, international organisations and users of STI indicators, to contributing also their relevance for policy making.
The STI Indicators conference series follows the experience of the STI conference series organised by CWTS since 1988 and of the PRIME-ENID Indicators conference series organised by ENID since 2005. The conference takes place each year in the first half of September; most recent conference has been in Leiden 8th-11th September 2010 (website); the next conferences will take place in Rome, 7th-9th September 2011, and in Montréal, Canada in autumn 2012.

STI indicators 2011 Conference

The STI Indicators Conference 2011 is organized in Rome by the Institute for Economic Research on Firms and Growth (CERIS) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) . The aim of the conference is to gather researchers, indicator producers and stakeholders interested in new developments in the field of STI indicators, around the notion of positioning indicators, as well as the use of indicators for strategic decisions of policymakers and research actors

The conference program can be consulted on this website and downloaded in pdf format.For specific topics and sessions please refer to the sessions webpage, while for registration and practical information refer to the corresponding pages on this website.

Scientific Committee

Rémi Barré, CNAM Paris.

Benoît Godin, INRS, Montréal.

Stephan Hornbostel, IFQ, Bonn.

Ben Jongbloed, CHEPS, University of Twente.

Loet Leydesdorff, ASCOR, University of Amsterdam.

Francesco Lissoni, University of Brescia.

Secondo Rolfo, CNR CERIS, Moncalieri.

Robert Tijssen, CWTS, Leiden University.

Peter van den Besselaar, Rathenau Institute, Den Haag.

Conference Chairs

Benedetto Lepori, University of Lugano.

Emanuela Reale, CNR CERIS, Rome.

Poster Session Chairs

Stig Slipersaeter, NIFU STEP, Oslo.

STI/ENID conferences 2012 and 2013

The STI/ENID conference 2012 will take place in Montréal, canada, from 8th - 11th September 2011 (see conference website). The ENID/STI conference 2013 will take place in Berlin, Germany, in September 2013.