Deltares - R&D Highlights 2009

Deltares in the world Deltares and its predecessors have been involved in R&D on Delta issues for more than 80 years. There was an important transformation in 2003 when the government found that too little fundamental research was being transformed into innovative applications that move the Dutch knowledge economy forwards. Why wasn’t more knowledge getting through to the end user? A part of the answer to this “innovation paradox” is the way the knowledge infrastructure works. It was concluded that there should be a much more direct connection between knowledge institutes and the corporate sector, and that the latter needed to be encouraged to use new knowledge. The 2009 R&D Annual Report One of the Deltares aims following on from this “connection” between the public and private sectors is to make R&D results more accessible. Many roads lead to Rome, and Deltares has numerous resources at its disposal for disseminating this knowledge: scientifi c publications, technical publications, reports, the website, wikis, communities of practice, courses and soſt ware. This R&D Highlights report for 2009 presents a selection of the R&D conducted in 2009 and it is structured on the lines of the social issues that are central to the Deltares mission. To enhance interactivity, one or more contact persons are listed for each project. People interested in more details should approach them. A PDF version of these R&D Highlights 2009 can be downloaded from www.deltares.nl. 6

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