In the last three-hundred years, the role of research for the technological progress is undeniable. Successful societies have mechanisms for a quality knowledge transfer into the economy and society. As we are all aware off, scientific and research activities are not intended for themselves, therefore scientific and research results as well as the socio-economic impacts of the results are important too. The paper covers the analysis of socio-economic impacts of research that can be divided into economic, political/social, educational and other. A literature review demonstrates the great importance of the socio-economic impacts of the public funding of science and research. There is a number of developed and successful methods to maximize the socio-economic effects on research and development, consequently, numerous documented cases of good practice in the world. This allows for good management of research projects, from their preparation, implementation to completion, and later dissemination of results and transfer to the economy and non-economy. In the paper, we firstly discuss the history of measuring the impacts of results of science and research, than the assessment of the socio-economic effects of the research and issues related to that. The international waymarks of planning and monitoring of the research effects are presented as well. Finally, some suggestions for solutions to how to deal with measuring the impacts of research results are presented.
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Slovenia has an above-average European scientific results, innovation system is rated just below the European average, while the per-capita shop GDP barely reaches the two thirds of the European average. Slovenian economic competitiveness is low. Research activity is not intended for itself, therefore scientific as well as the socio-economic effects are important too. Therefore the paper covers the analysis of socio-economic effects of research that can be divided into economic, political/social and educational. In the paper we firstly discuss the schematic and systematic methodology and assessment of the socio-economic effects of the research. The international waymarks of planning and monitoring of the research effects is presents as well. The paper further analyses the strengths and weaknesses of the Slovenian innovation system and isolate the good practices of the successful countries and countries which are progressing rapidly. Therefore, the European Innovation Index and the Global competitiveness index will be studied and the detail that identify the reasons for successes and failures of the United States and provide guidance on how to be more successful with the help of the socio-economic effects of science and/or research and development.
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