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In the innovation and technology area, policies aim to improve the capacity of firms to innovate and use new technologies, thus contributing to higher productivity and growth, and to the creation of more and better jobs. Given the growing importance of knowledge-based economic activities, it is crucial to be able to identify how the maximum leverage of these policy initiatives can be obtained. Evaluation is thus central to "best practice" formulation in thus area. This report brings together presentations by a range of international researchers and policy makers at an OECD Conference held on 26-27 June 1997. The contributions have been reorganised for publication in order to better reflect methodological issues as well as very different country experiences. They provide valuable insight into the evaluation of innovation and technology practices in OECD countries, focusing in particular on the quantitativie and qualitative tools used and the institutional set-up within which evaluation exercises take place.