Abstract
Innovation agencies, that is organizations with the primary focus of funding applied research and
technological development, evaluate project proposals to select the most promising proposals
for funding. At the moment, there is only little verified knowledge available on project evaluation
and selection processes of innovation agencies. We want to show how projects are evaluated and
selected in these organizations. We want to also make a contribution for better understanding the
variety of the utilized processes by pointing out the reasoning behind some of the most important
practices. This article therefore focuses on the following questions: How are projects selected in
innovation agencies? What are the employed procedures and practices? Are there differences in
procedures and practices and what would be the reason for these differences? The basis for
answering these questions is a study produced for the European Association of National
Innovation Agencies, Taftie. There we have analysed the project selection procedures of 18 programmes
run by 12 European innovation agencies. To do so, we have produced an overview of
existing selection procedures of the innovation agencies, analysed, and compared the procedures
along the stages of a typical selection process. The key points of interest were role of evaluators,
selection criteria, ranking procedures, and general process issues.
Originalsprache | Englisch |
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Seiten (von - bis) | 289-299 |
Seitenumfang | 11 |
Fachzeitschrift | Research Evaluation |
Volume | 29 |
Issue | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publikationsstatus | Veröffentlicht - 2020 |
Research Field
- Ehemaliges Research Field - Innovation Systems and Policy
Schlagwörter
- project selection; selection procedures; innovation agencies; applied research and technological development; project evaluation; funding organizations