The limited take-up of evaluation findings in research, technological development and innovation (RTDI) policy (re-)design remains a major concern to policy-makers and the evaluation community. To identify the main opportunities for closing the policy cycle, an in-depth analysis was undertaken...

This innovative book focuses on the most important concept underpinning current European Union research policy. It describes the history and concept of the European Research Area (ERA), analyses some of the underlying assumptions, assesses some of its achievements, and takes a brief look at its...

This innovative book focuses on the most important concept underpinning current European Union research policy. It describes the history and concept of the European Research Area (ERA), analyses some of the underlying assumptions, assesses some of its achievements, and takes a brief look at its...

While the EU has over ten years of experience with the formal ex-post evaluation of the Framework Programmes (FP), its experience with the ex-ante impact assessment (IA) of those programmes is much more recent. In 2005, the Commission published the ex-ante IA of FP7, which runs from 2007 to 2013...