Decision-Making: Who Gets What and Why?

Abstract

After the experiments of the early 1980s, European collaborative RTD programmes expanded quite rapidly. By the late 1990s, both the Framework programme and EUREKA were characterised by complicated and often hermetic systems of decision-making. In 1995, Edith Cresson admitted that ‘our procedures are too bureaucratic and our delays are too long’ (quoted in Commission 1995b). The Belgian EUREKA Chairmanship (1995: 3) acknowledged that the initiative continued to be plagued by problems of insufficient transparency.