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Requirements Engineering for a Web-based Research, Technology&Innovation Monitoring Tool
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Existing RTI policy monitoring tools suffer from inefficient information acquisition and inadequate dynamic tracking capabilities. This study proposes a methodology for developing an open-source web-based system dedicated to Research, Technology, and Innovation (RTI) policy monitoring. It employs role-driven requirements engineering to precisely elicit heterogeneous stakeholder needs and introduces a novel modular architectural paradigm centered on a user-configurable dashboard, with strict separation across presentation, service, and data layers. The approach integrates open-data interoperability standards and interactive visualization techniques. As key contributions, the work delivers a reusable RTI monitoring system architecture specification and a standardized dashboard requirements template. These artifacts were empirically validated through deployment in the Austrian RTI Monitor—a national-scale platform enabling cross-departmental, real-time indicator tracking and evidence-informed policy coordination—thereby substantially enhancing the timeliness, accessibility, and scalability of RTI policy monitoring.
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With the increasing significance of Research, Technology, and Innovation (RTI) policies in recent years, the demand for detailed information about the performance of these sectors has surged. Many of the current tools are limited in their application purpose. To address these issues, we introduce a requirements engineering process to identify stakeholders and elicitate requirements to derive a system architecture, for a web-based interactive and open-access RTI system monitoring tool. Based on several core modules, we introduce a multi-tier software architecture of how such a tool is generally implemented from the perspective of software engineers. A cornerstone of this architecture is the user-facing dashboard module. We describe in detail the requirements for this module and additionally illustrate these requirements with the real example of the Austrian RTI Monitor.
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Information Tools
Scientific Research
Policy Innovation
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Network Monitoring Tool
User-friendly Interface
Dashboard Functionality
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