INNO-Appraisal

Project Title: 
INNO-Appraisal
Acronym: 
INNO-Appraisal
Abstract: 

Assessing Appraisals (Evaluations, Peer Review, Benchmarking) and Drawing Lessons on Innovation Policy across Europe

  • By collecting reports of appraisals of innovation policy measures in the EU
  • By analysing these appraisals
  • By drawing lessons on evaluation practices and methods across Europe
  • By assessing the usage of appraisals in policy-making
  • By defining good practice in innovation policy making along the policy cycle
Overview: 

The objective of the INNO-Partnering Forum is to improve the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of SME innovation support in Europe and has the ambition to become a sustainable learning platform for European cooperation on public innovation support for innovative SMEs.

More specifically, the proposed INNO-Partnering Forum aims to:

Identify, develop and exploit synergies between public innovation agencies and other public organisations responsible at national and regional level for the development and implementation of innovation support in Europe;

Propose and test new ways of service delivery as well as new approaches to support innovation in SMEs more efficiently and effectively across Europe;

Deliver concrete policy recommendations on how innovation agencies, by acting together, can accelerate the take-up of the most advanced support systems for innovative SMEs across Europe.

Key activities: 

OUR ACTIVITIES IN A NUTSHELL

The project collects all available appraisal reports on innovation policy measures in the EU Member States dating back to 2003. It does this primarily on the basis of the Trendchart database. The project team then characterise and assess each of the appraisal reports.

This is done using a sophisticated concept to capture, characterise and assess appraisals in form of a collection template. This template concentrates on the evaluation and its scope and quality. The pre-filled templates are then be checked and amended by the policy makers who are or have been responsible for the relevant policy measure. Completed templates are then put into a central repository and analysed by the project team.

This analysis will enable us to learn about evaluation culture in Europe, about which methods are used in what contexts, which practices are perceived as being most appropriate for policy-makers, and so forth.

In a second step of the analysis, to be conducted mainly in 2009, a further, shorter template will be circulated that focuses exclusively on the usefulness of the appraisal exercise for the policy making process (policy-learning and adaptation). In combination with the first analytical step this will result in a unique database and analysis of policy-making principles and practices in innovation policy. Evaluations (and the related policy measures) are only included in this second step of the analysis if the appraisal meets certain quality criteria in step 1, as only then do we have reliable data regarding the policy measure.

The INNO-Appraisal Project is summarised in this figure.

Coordinator: 
PREST - University of Manchester
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