Handbook on the Theory and Practice of Program Evaluation

Edited by Albert Link and Nicholas S. Vonortas

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Abstract: As this volume demonstrates, a wide variety of methodologies exist to evaluate particularly the objectives and outcomes of research and development programs. These include surveys, statistical and econometric estimations, patent analyses, bibliometrics, scientometrics, network analyses, case studies, and historical tracings. Contributors divide these and other methods and applications into four categories – economic, non-economic, hybrid and data-driven – in order to discuss the many factors that affect the utility of each technique and how that impacts the technological, economic and societal forecasts of the programs in question.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Innovations and Technology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
ISBN: 9780857932396
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction to the handbook , pp 1-11

Albert Link and Nicholas S. Vonortas

Ch 2 The theory and practice of public-sector R&D economic impact analysis , pp 15-55

Albert Link and John Scott

Ch 3 Micro-econometric approaches to the evaluation of technology-oriented public programmes: a non-technical review of the state of the art , pp 56-88

Spyros Arvanitis

Ch 4 Selection of a portfolio of R&D projects , pp 89-111

Sébastien Casault, Aard J. Groen and Jonathan D. Linton

Ch 5 Peer review and expert panels as techniques for evaluating the quality of academic research , pp 115-142

Irwin Feller

Ch 6 Logic modeling: a tool for designing program evaluations , pp 143-165

Gretchen B. Jordan

Ch 7 Research value mapping and evaluation: theory and application , pp 166-189

Barry Bozeman and Gordon Kingsley

Ch 8 Social network methodology , pp 193-246

Nicholas S. Vonortas

Ch 9 Estimating avoided environmental emissions and environmental health benefits , pp 247-290

Alan C. O’Connor, Michael P. Gallaher, Ross J. Loomis and Sara E. Casey

Ch 10 Evaluating cooperative research centers: a strategy for assessing proximal and distal outcomes and associated economic impacts , pp 291-320

Drew Rivers and Denis O. Gray

Ch 11 Bibliometrics as a tool for research evaluation , pp 323-349

Diana Hicks and Julia Melkers

Ch 12 Patent analysis , pp 350-365

Rosalie Ruegg and Patrick Thomas

Ch 13 Measuring innovation with official statistics , pp 366-390

John E. Jankowski

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