RAND Europe
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Annual Report 2001
Over the past year, RAND Europe, an independent subsidiary
of RAND, has doubled in size and expanded into a truly multinational
enterprise with 70 employees of 11 nationalities working in offices
across three countries.
A key factor in this expansion was the acquisition of Hague
Consulting Group (HCG), which had offices in The Hague,
Netherlands, and in Cambridge, UK. RAND Europe’s Leiden Office
expanded with the addition of HCG’s Netherlands-based staff, and
the Cambridge Office also expanded later in the year by attracting
a team of researchers in information technology. RAND Europe has
also established working partnerships with the Information Assurance
Advisory Council (IAAC) in the UK and with the GAIA Group
in Finland.
The expansion of the research agenda that has accompanied
RAND Europe’s growth is one of the most important highlights
of 2001. RAND Europe’s work on surface transportation and aviation
constitutes a majority of the research program. At the same time,
health and society, defense and security, and information society
have grown into important research areas. Other promising fields
of research include science and technology, immigration, and justice.
RAND Europe’s research program is now nearly as broad as that
of RAND’s U.S. operations.
Now in its tenth-anniversary year, RAND Europe has achieved
a reputation for conducting objective, independent, high-quality
policy analysis throughout Europe. RAND Europe benefits from its
collaboration with RAND’s U.S. offices and staff, and RAND as
a whole likewise benefits from having a major European think tank
on whose experience and expertise it can draw. In many ways, RAND
Europe has succeeded in its original goals of promoting the trans-
atlantic cross-fertilization of research and ideas.
Selected Research Highlights
Evolution Scenarios for Broadband Networking. The primary
objective of the European Union’s e-Europe Action Plan for 2002
is to ensure a fast and secure Internet. At the EU’s request, RAND
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