Evaluation and (Re)Orientation of Innovation Policy

Evaluation and (Re)Orientation of Innovation Policy
Irwin Feller
Senior Visiting ProfessorAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science
Presentation to Chile’s National Innovation Council For Competitiveness
Santiago, Chile
January 22, 2010

Role(s) of Evaluation
“In order to be able to construct (a long term vision), we must walk along a path strewn with intermediate steps and milestones that would let us evaluate the results jointly with the participation of all stakeholders.
TOWARDS A NATIONAL INNOVATION STRATEGY FOR COMPETITIVENESS, VOLUME II, 2008

Why Evaluate?: Governability(Public Management Perspective)
Accountability
Transparency
Oversight

Why Evaluate: Economist’s Perspective
“This evaluation will indicate the changes that must be implemented both in the speed and in the direction of the actions that are to be undertaken”
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Allocate Public Resources to Their Most Productive Ends and Determine the Effectiveness of Their Use

The Policy-Program-Evaluation Linkage
Need to Adopt Correct Policies (“Design’)
Need to Determine if Policies/Programs are Being Correctly Implemented (“Implementation”)
Policies/Programs are Experiments.

“Innovation is Fruitful Only After Many Trials and Errors…”
Ready, Aim, Fire
Ready, Aim, Fire, (EVALUATE), RE-AIM

Evaluation as Protection
Evaluation Helps Protect Against Agency/Client Capture
“It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so”.
Will Rogers

Evaluation Parallels
Strengthen SMEs
Develop Venture Markets
Revise University Intellectual Property Rights Policies
Support Industry R&D
Develop Regional Capabilities
CNIC Report
Manufacturing Extension Partnership
Small Business Innovation Research Program
Bayh-Dole Act
Advanced Technology Program
Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research
Recent US Experience

Alternative Paradigms for Viewing National Strategies
Feller
Strategy as Football (Soccer)
Referee?
Coach?
Goaltender?
Striker?
CNIC Report
Strategy as an Orchestra
Composer?
Conductor?
First Violinist?

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