Evaluation of ST&I programs: a methodological approach to the Brazilian Small Business Program and some comparisons with the SBIR program

Sergio Salles-Filho, Maria Beatriz Bonacelli, Ana Maria Carneiro, Paula F Drummond de Castro and Fernando Oliveira Santos

Research Evaluation, 2011, vol. 20, issue 2, 159-171

Abstract: Evaluation of research results and impacts is a topic of growing interest to public and private organizations worldwide. Indeed, it can be said that evaluation initiatives are a top priority for many R&D institutions if they are to assure social legitimation. Assuming that the innovation process is uncertain, complex, linked to social and technical imponderables, and capable of taking a different course from what is planned, the goals of evaluation almost always become moving targets. The objective of this article is twofold: a) to present a methodological proposal for the evaluation of STR&I programs, particularly to allow multidimensional approaches in order to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of STR&I programs; and b) to present an application of this methodology to a Brazilian public program that aims to foster the emergence of innovative small firms, and compare it with some findings for a similar US program. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

Date: 2011
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