The Austrian bilateral S&T agreements with diverse countries such as Hungary, Korea, India, or France were assessed along different dimensions, such as:
- relevance of the agreements for science diplomacy, and for the beneficiaries
- contirbution of the agreements towards internationalisation objectives
- satisfaction of the clients with the implementation of the agreements
- efficiency of the different types of S&T agreements etc.
Employed methods included document analysis, expert interviews (beneficiaries and stakeholders), online questionnaire (beneficiaries), and bibliometric case studies of selected project partnerships funded under bilateral S&T agreements.
