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Evaluation of Tekes Funding for Research Institutes and Universities
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| Jari Hyvarinen,
Tekes,
jari.hyvarinen@tekes.fi
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A focus of Tekes (Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation and Technology) funding for research institutes and universities is the renewing and collaborative technology, service and business oriented research projects. This paper presents recent evaluation results of the Tekes projects for research institutes and universities that were carried out in the early 2000s. Tekes database includes evaluation results of around 2500 Tekes funded projects and 100 research organizations. First, it shows a survey of recent findings of those projects using the four-step model of evaluation and impact assessment implemented in Tekes. This model concentrates on additionality effects including R&D investments, results, direct effects and impact on national economy and society. Second, it emphasizes several improvements how by using ex post evaluation and impact analysis it can be found more precise and accurate evaluation results, and how to make more precise ex ante decisions when planning new funding for research institutes and universities.
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Cost-Benefit Analysis for Research and Development Program Evaluation
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| Jiyoung Park,
Korea Institute of Science and Technology Evaluation and Planning,
jypark@kistep.re.kr
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| Seung Kyu Yi,
Korea Institute of Science & Technology Evaluation and Planning,
skyist@kistep.re.kr
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Feasibility analysis system for national R&D programs has been legislated since Dec. 2006 in Korea. It is performed to decide governmental budget distribution. Technical, policy, and economic/impact analysis is carried out to decide approval or rejection of the newly proposed R&D programs. The economic evaluation is performed to measure economic benefits and appropriateness of the program.
Cost-benefit analysis is often conducted as a part of ex ante program evaluation, and should provide information on the full costs and expected benefits. However, identifying all of the benefits and costs of the program prior to their initiation is difficult for R&D programs. The assessment should include direct and indirect benefits and costs and has to always contain a “do nothing” alternatives to provide a baseline.
Tangible or intangible benefits of R&D programs should be measured through different methodologies. In this paper, case studies on B/C analysis for the R&D programs are introduced.
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Content and Values in the Strategic Management of Research and Development Portfolios
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| Juan Rogers,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
jdrogers@gatech.edu
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Most R&D programs in government agencies consist in portfolios of projects that have become more collaborative and multi- or interdisciplinary. Each field represented in a multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary arrangement has different field specific cognitive values that are often difficult to negotiate and reconcile within collaborative teams. There are also new networks of relevant stakeholders that implicitly or explicitly adjudicate whether desirable or undesirable outcomes have occurred. This paper will propose a theoretical framework for the evaluation of such portfolios that includes the empirical elucidation of the content-value structures for strategic management. It will apply the framework to the case of government agencies in the US and a South American country to exemplify the expected results and the how the approach can be used.
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