Evaluation of Technology Policy Programmes in Germany: 4 (Economics of Science, Technology and Innovation) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9401044287 ISBN 13: 9789401044288

Publisher: Springer, 2012

Synopsis

The evaluation of government programmes and measures in the field of technology policy has gained in significance in Germany over the past decade. A variety of evaluation studies on individual projects or programmes with different aims, approaches and methods are available. Which experiences were gained with the instrument of evaluation in this policy area?
Evaluation of Technology Policy Programmes in Germany:

demonstrates trends of government policy in Germany;

documents experiences with the use of various promotion instruments;

represents approaches and methods, used in the past years to test the efficiency of various tools of industrial technology policy and discusses their strengths and weaknesses, and

draws conclusions for the further development of the evaluation of technology policy in selected areas. £/LIST£ The book includes contributions by authors from the most highly recognized German institutes and consultants working in the evaluation of technology policy, of interest to policy makers, administrators, as well as researchers, scholars and students of economics, innovation research and public policy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9401044287
• ISBN 13: 9789401044288
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376
• Editor: Becher Gerhard, Kuhlmann Stefan