OSIRIS - the Oslo Institute for Research on the Impact of Science - will for the next eight years will study how and under what conditions research may have an impact on society. OSIRIS is funded by the Research Council of Norway§s ForInnPol programme, it is hosted and led by TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture at the University of Oslo, and it is carried out in partnership with Statistics Norway (SSB), INGENIO at the Polytechnic University of Valencia and MIOIR at the University of Manchester.