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... Towards Best Practices...
OECD Conference held on the 26-27 June
1997
Evaluation of government programmes and policies is an
issue of increasing interest in OECD countries. It is driven by
tight budgets, a greater facus on accountability and
transparency in policy, and the desire to minimise distorsions
arising from government actions while maximising their impact.
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 pratice" 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 quantitative and qualitative
tools used and the institutionnal set-up within which
evaluation exercises take place.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. Methodological Issues in Evaluation
Part II.
Evaluation of Financial Support and Large Technology
Programmes
Part III.
Evaluation of Diffusion-oriented Policies
Part IV.
Country Experiences with Evaluation
Annex.
Programme
of the OECD Conference on Policy Evaluation in
Innovation and Technology (pdf, 12Kb)
Annex.
Summary
of the proceedings of the OECD Conference on Policy
Evaluation in Innovation and Technology (pdf, 77Kb)
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Last update 12 July 1999
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