Leading Technology Institutes

Leading Technology Institutes (LTI) are a partnership for innovation between the business world, knowledge institutions and government. The LTIs are a unique and successful instrument that the government has introduced to boost the Netherlands' innovative capacity and competitive strength. In 1998 four leading technology institutes were founded; DPI was one of them.

LTI's innovation role...

Both in the Netherlands and abroad the LTI formula is regarded as a best-practice model of public private cooperation for making that step from knowledge to innovation. This formula continues to be relevant today. The instrument has an important role to play in Dutch innovation policy. It is consistent with the thoughts of the Innovation Platform and with the increasing importance of networks, public-private cooperation, demand drive and programme funding. The LTIs would like to contribute to the continuity and extension of the instrument.

... and economic growth role

They wish to expand their portfolios, grow nationally and internationally and increase the involvement of the SME sector and higher vocational education in order to improve the transfer of knowledge. In addition, these LTIs wish not only to share the understanding and experience they have gained as the early exponents of the instrument with one another but also to make their insights available to new innovation initiatives.

Manifest LTI

In July 2004 the Leading Technology Institutes published a manifest.

OECD Report

Public-private partnerships for research and innovation: an evaluation of the Dutch experience
A major conclusion of the OECD Growth Study was that governments need to be more responsive to the rapid transformation of innovation processes and related business needs and strategies, and that greater use of public-private partnerships can increase this responsiveness and enhance the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of technology and innovation policy. In the framework of its follow-up work on micro-policies for productivity and growth, the OECD is conducting peer reviews of member countries' public-private partnership (PP/P) programmes for research and innovation. This report examines and assesses PP/P initiatives in the Netherlands, with a special focus on the LTIs. It has been prepared by the OECD Secretariat,in co-operation with the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and in consultation with other stakeholders in LTIs. It takes into account the results of a peer review meeting which took place in June 2003 within the OECD Working Party on Technology and Innovation Policy. It is published on the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD.

OECD Report