On the morning of May 18, our institute held a Distinguished Researcher Appointment Ceremony and Expert Lecture, appointing Dr. Rainer Frietsch, Head of the Department of Innovation and Knowledge Economics at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (Germany), as a Distinguished Researcher of our institute. Ms. Zhang Conghui, Deputy Director of our institute, presented the appointment letter to Dr. Rainer Frietsch.

　　Accepting the appointment, Dr. Frietsch delivered an acceptance speech, expressing his honor in becoming a Distinguished Researcher of the Shanghai Institute of Science of Science. He looked forward to in-depth cooperation with our institute in innovation policy, research indicators, open science and other fields, and to jointly promoting China-Germany scientific and technological innovation exchanges.

　　Subsequently, Dr. Frietsch gave a lecture titled International science collaboration and open science – a Germany-biased perspective. He noted that international research collaboration and open science have become core pillars of contemporary research policy. He systematically reviewed the evolution of Germany’s international research policy, analyzed the positioning of open science in Germany’s 2018 High-Tech Strategy, and focused on interpreting three dimensions: open access, open data and open source. Based on multi-dimensional indicators such as international collaborative patents, joint papers, open access publications and open source contributions, he constructed a composite openness index and compared the strengths and weaknesses of Germany’s research system with those of major countries.

　　After the lecture, researchers from our institute engaged in in-depth discussions with Dr. Frietsch on hot topics including differences in China-Germany research cooperation, pathways for implementing open science, and the balance between technological sovereignty and research openness. The event featured a strong academic atmosphere.

　　Dr. Rainer Frietsch currently serves as Head of the Department of Innovation and Knowledge Economics at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (Germany). A senior expert in innovation policy, research indicators and China-Germany scientific and technological cooperation, he has over 25 years of research and management experience. From 2008 to 2019, he served as Deputy Director of the institute’s Competence Center “Policy – Industry – Innovation”, led the drafting of Germany’s annual innovation indicator reports, and deeply participated in the formulation of Germany’s federal research policies. He has long been committed to China-Germany scientific and technological exchanges: visiting Professor at the Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2008–2025); contributed to the formulation of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research’s China strategy (2012); and served as a core expert of the China-Germany Innovation Platform (2011–2019). His research focuses on patent statistics, bibliometrics, research system performance, knowledge and technology transfer, and industry-university-research collaborative innovation. As a leading German scholar on China’s innovation system, his research findings are widely applied in German and international research policy practices.