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Annual Report 2014 18 NOWITECH Norwegian Research Centre for Offshore Wind Technology
The extended SC accomplished two full meetings in 2014; one in January back-to-back with the EERA
DeepWind conference in Trondheim, and one in June at DTU in Roskilde (see Figure 7) These extended
SC meetings involved an evaluation of the scientific content of NOWITECH’s results and giving strategic
advice on direction of research
Upon a request by the strategy taskforce initiated by the Board, the SC conducted an analysis of the
scientific publications inNOWITECH. Themain objective of the studywas to evaluate the scientific quality
of the on-going research in NOWITECH Based on the publication information from the NOWITECH
eroom that were reported within 1st of April 2014 the so-called CRIStin score (normalised by costs) were
determined for each work package and each partner respectively Many interesting observations were
made and the study has already resulted in an increase in publications for some of the research partners