| Session Title: The Follow-up Monitoring and Outcome Survey for National Research and Development Projects in New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) |
| Multipaper Session 813 to be held in Pratt Room, Section A on Saturday, November 10, 1:50 PM to 3:20 PM |
| Sponsored by the Research, Technology, and Development Evaluation TIG |
| Chair(s): |
| Takahisa Yano, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, yanotkh@nedo.go.jp |
| Abstract: NEDO is Japan's largest public R&D management organization for promoting various areas of technologies. It is very important for funding agencies as NEDO to monitor the post-project activities of project participants toward the practical application of R&D achievements, to assess the impact of national R&D projects and to review previous post-project evaluations in view of post-project activities in order to provide any feedback to improve R&D management. In this session, from these points of view, relevance between the score of ex-post evaluation and post-project activities will be discussed. And in order to identify the important management factors for successful or failure of post-project activities, unique procedures, we called -Follow-up chart-, will be discussed. And in order to understand outcomes derived from National R&D, a case study using various indicators will also be discussed. |
| Study of the Correlation Between Ex-post Evaluation and Follow-up Monitoring of National Research and Development (Part I) |
| Hiroyuki Usuda, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, usudahry@nedo.go.jp |
| Momoko Okada, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, okadammk@nedo.go.jp |
| NEDO has conducted intermediate evaluations and ex-post evaluations since FY2001. In addition to ex-ante (pre-project) evaluations of new R&D projects, NEDO also started follow-up monitoring and evaluations on completed project in FY2004. In the intermediate and ex-project evaluation work, projects are assessed and evaluated from the following four categories. 'Purpose and strategy', 'Project management', 'R&D achievements', and 'Prospect for practical applications and other impacts'. On the other hand, NEDO has tracked participating organizations of which post-project activities have reached practical applications. In this study, we will try to verify the validity of ex-post evaluations by comparing the result of ex-post evaluations with that of follow-up monitoring. |
| Study for the Important Management Factors Based on Follow-up Monitoring Data (Part II) |
| Setsuko Wakabayashi, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, wakabayashistk@nedo.go.jp |
| Tsutomu Kitagawa, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, kitagawattm@nedo.go.jp |
| Takahisa Yano, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, yanotkh@nedo.go.jp |
| Kazuaki Komoto, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, kohmotokza@nedo.go.jp |
| NEDO has used Follow-up Monitoring to track various post-project activities of participating organizations in the past NEDO projects since FY2004. NEDO has conducted questionnaires survey and interviews to companies of which post-project activities have reached commercialization stage or discontinued. And also, NEDO has specifically tried to identify important management factors by using a Follow-up Chart in order to improve its project management. In this study, several important management points which NEDO had obtained from the results of FY 2005 and FY2006 will be discussed. |
| Approach for the Understanding of Outcomes Derived from National Research and Development of Energy Conservation Project (Part III) |
| Kazuaki Komoto, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, kohmotokza@nedo.go.jp |
| Tsutomu Kitagawa, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, kitagawattm@nedo.go.jp |
| Takahisa Yano, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, yanotkh@nedo.go.jp |
| Setsuko Wakabayashi, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, wakabayashistk@nedo.go.jp |
| In this study, in order to make a method to understand the outcomes, the energy conservation project which purposes developing the advanced industrial furnace conducted by NEDO were adopted, because NEDO has contributed for the development of technology in this field. 5 indicators, such as amount of the burner, market size, the effect on CO2 reduction, were used to show the outcomes and the data obtained by using these indicators presented in this study. |