James,
many thanks for your willingness to help. I will check out the available
sources that you suggested.
Yasen
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On Sat, 8/8/15, james altschuld <maltschuld1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Subject: [needs assessment listserv] Re: Needs assessment it trasnport
research and innovation
To: needsassessment@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Saturday, August 8, 2015, 6:05 PM
Yasen, in my earlier
communication to you I was refereeing to the 8 needs
assessment books I have been involved in from
1995. They are all available
on
the SAGE publications website. Ryan and his colleagues
have also
authored a NA book as have
Kaufmann and Guerra, and there are others.
So my comment was about
general sources.
Regards,
JWA
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Subject: [needs assessment listserv] Re: Needs
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research and
innovation
Dear all,
I will answer you in this manner this time,
firstly because I assume that
everybody gets
at the same time the comments made by somebody else and
secondly because I find it useful to lay down a
bit more details related to
my query. Not to
forget to mention also that I am very pleasantly
surprised
to have the feedback of so many of
you to my question of earlier today.
So, I
work for the Ministry of Transport, Information Technology
and
Communications /MTITC/ of Bulgaria.
Currently we have a national transport
strategy with the overall objective of
development of sustainable transport
system.
At implementation level however we have programmes and
projects
encompassing mainly the development
of the transport infrastructure, i.e.
construction of roads, rail, etc. On the other
hand we are in contact with
EU states that
have separate dedicated initiatives or programmes for
research and innovation in transport. I have
asked some colleagues from
these countries
how did they come up with their national research agendas
and the answer was mainly trough
(institutionalized) dialog of the various
stakeholders.
My understanding
is that the implementation of research and innovations in
our transport sector might increase the
effectiveness of the use of the
resources
and also to support number of other positive outcomes like
for
example potential new markets or
commercial collaboration for our companies.
And here comes the challenge how to identify
the research needs in the
sector. I will be
happy enough to start solely with the identification of
the research needs of the agencies and the
companies part of overall
structure of the
ministry that I work at. So the needs assessment in
question has to be capable to answer to the
following question:
What other (research
and innovations) activities, different from their
current practice to invest solely in the
construction of new infrastructure,
are
available to the entities part of the MTITC in order for
them to improve
the achievement of their
respective strategic goals?
In answer to
your suggestions :
1. I did try to find out
what are the research needs in other countries and
transnational organizations. For example I read
some documents issued by the
USA
Transportation Board, some OECD papers, etc. However thus I
was just
able to identify that there is
certainly something going on in this domain
elsewhere, but am probably lacking the required
specific competence to be
able to use these
activities as a hint of what might be needed in our case.
2 I tried to identify, utilizing google,
even some more general Research
Needs
Assessment methodology, but to no avail. Now I come to think
that
probably even some broader sound
methodology should be fine in this
situation.
3. I note the
proposal for meta analysis of the research articles, but
it
seems to me very time consuming. I hoped
that probably there is some means
to prepare
a structured online questionnaire and to dispatch it towards
the
respective entities responsible for
the development of the various
transport
modes /like for example Road Agency, National Railway
Infrastructure Company, etc./ and to some
academics as well
I will be happy to read all comments and
suggestion that you may have in
relation to
the above,
Yasen
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On Thu, 8/6/15, Jolanta <jokavali@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Subject: [needs
assessment listserv] Re: Needs assessment it trasnport
research and innovation
To: needsassessment@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thursday, August 6, 2015, 5:54 PM
Hello,
Iasen,
Perhaps, first it is
useful to focus on conducting a meta-analysis
of transport research
scientific articles,
so that you can make some general theoretical
assumptions on the "what is"
situation. For the analysis you could use the
on-line scientific databases
and
qualitative/quantitative methodologies for the thematic
and content
search.
I can
only
guess that transport research is a
very broad theme, so perhaps you want
to
narrow it down to even more specific areas - what type of
transport,
geographical area,
public/privately owned, passenger/goods etc.
Afterwards you could use the broader
NA methodology to assess the need for
inovation in the area you are
investigating.
Best wishes,Jolanta
Kavale
Jolanta Kavale, Dr.
phil
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 4:01
PM, Iasen Markov <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Dear
colleagues,
I am
currently trying to identify any reference documents that
might be
out there dealing with the
assessment of transport research and innovation
needs.
I am
interested primarily in statutory documents, but am also
keen to find
any other academic or general
narratives.
My interest concerns the
methodology of conduct, reporting requirements,
case studies and any other related
information.
Looking forward to your
comments,
best regards,
Yasen
Markov
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