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Evaluation and (Re)Orientation of Innovation PolicyIrwin FellerSenior Visiting ProfessorAmerican Association for the Advancement of SciencePresentation to Chile’s National  Innovation Council For CompetitivenessSantiago, ChileJanuary 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
 OversightWhy 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”-----------------------------------------------Allocate Public Resources to Their Most Productive Ends and Determine the Effectiveness of Their Use
The Policy-Program-Evaluation LinkageNeed 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-AIMEvaluation 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

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