Although often viewed as a premature and difficult activity, evaluation of state advanced technology programs has commenced in response to annual state budget reviews. Three issues related to evaluation of state advanced technology programs are examined here: (1) the political and institutional...

There is a need for rigorous definitional and empirical specification of what is meant by firm learning and the growing number of variants on this important theme. Based on a review of the literature on firm learning, the authors present a series of propositions about the state of knowledge...

A benefit-cost study of New York State's Centers for Advanced Technology (CAT) program was undertaken to (1) respond to increasing legislative and executive demands for quantitative assessments of these programs; (2) demonstrate the feasibility, within identified limits, of evaluating the...

Growth of interdisciplinary research and education is accompanied by uncertainty about how to evaluate interdisciplinary work. What constitute indicators of quality that distinguish the exemplary from the mundane? What research evaluation processes are most appropriate when disciplinary...

This paper starts with an analysis of how political and organizational factors shape the general and specific criteria used to determine the set of science indicators that will be used to assess a science agency's performance and then proceeds to develop an approach that can be used to assess...

Managing the academic research enterprise to achieve enhanced quality and national research competitiveness entails far more than the conventional components of strategic planning. A brief account of findings relating to interdisciplinarity, a more formal statement about cultural barriers to...

This paper reviews features in both theory and practice in the use of performance indicators in making budgetary decisions about US government S&T programs, especially the consequences of the Government Performance and Results Act. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

The question of how to assess interdisciplinary research is made more complex by the existence of multiple actors making multiple decisions in multiple organizational settings. These settings include government officials charged with allocating or evaluating public expenditures in political...

Technological innovation is widely seen as a means for raising productivity levels in state and local government. Growing evidence indicates that (1) senior level bureaucrats have primary responsibility for decisions concerning the adoption of innovations, and (2) innovations adopted by state...