Socio-economic impact assessment of research e-Infrastructures: a proposal for a methodological approach

The paper provides the description of the methodology and tools for the socio-economic assessment of the e-Infrastructures developed by the ERINA+ project researches. The ERINA+ approach is aimed to overcome the usual limitation deriving from the use of classic assessment techniques by combining the latter with tools able to capture and visualise the complexity of the e-Infrastructures ecosystem. The methodology and the tools have been tested with 20 e-Infrastructures projects and a number of stakeholders with the final objective of spreading the assessment culture and propose the ERINA+ approach as a standard for the socio-economic evaluation of research and innovation initiatives.