Evaluation of Technology Policy Programmes in Germany

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Practice of Technology Policy Evaluation in Germany: Introduction and Overview

      • Stefan Kuhlmann, Frieder Meyer-Krahmer

      Pages 3-29

3. Case Studies

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   2. Evaluation of the Promotion of R&D Activities in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

      • Uwe Kuntze, Kurt Hornschild

      Pages 33-54

   3. Evaluation of the Promotion of R&D-Cooperations of small and Medium-sized Enterprises

      • Gerhard Becher, Heimfrid Wolff

      Pages 55-80

   4. Evaluation of the Indirect-Specific Promotion of Manufacturing Technology

      • Jürgen Wengel, Gunter Lay, Carsten Dreher

      Pages 81-99

   5. Application of New Technologies in Accordance with Human Needs in the Printing Industry-Changing Paradigms in the Evaluation of small Enterprise Orientated R&D-Funding

      • Heinz-Reiner Treichel, Kurt-Georg Ciesinger

      Pages 101-115

   6. Diffusion and Potential Analyses as Part of Programme Evaluations: Exemplified in the Promotion of Laser Technology and the Promotion of Thin-Film Technology

      • Michael Reinhard

      Pages 117-136

   7. Evaluation of the Promotion of Information Technology: Microelectronics, Microperiphery and Microsystem Technology

      • Carsten Becker

      Pages 137-164

   8. Evaluation of the Promotion of Pre-Competitive Research and Development Cooperation in the case of Microsystems Technology (MST)

      • Rüdiger Eschenbach, Joachim Hafkesbrink, Susanne Lütz

      Pages 165-196

   9. Evaluation of Technology Transfer Initiatives in the Framework of Innovation Support Programmes Instruments of Technology Transfer Evaluation

      • Joachim Hafkesbrink, Heike Horst

      Pages 197-213

4. Selected Methodological Advances

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   2. Problems and Implications of an Institution-Based Impact Analysis of the Berlin Model of Technology and Know-How Transfer

      • Oliver Pfirrmann, Klaus Schroeder

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   3. New Technology Indicators for the Evaluation of Research and Development Programmes

      • Hariolf Grupp, Ulrich Schmoch, Uwe Kuntze

      Pages 243-284

   4. Technometrics as a Tool in the Evaluation of Innovation-Support-Programmes - Using the Example of Microsystems Technologies (MST)

      • Joachim Hafkesbrink, Michael Krause

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5. Selected Policy Issues

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   2. The Market — Market Failure, and the Evaluation of Technology — Promoting Programs

      • Michael Fritsch

      Pages 311-329

   3. Regulation and Innovation Some New Prospects of Science and Technology Policy in the Federal Republic of Germany

      • Gerhard Becher

      Pages 331-360

6. Back Matter

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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.

• Evaluation
• Institution
• Policy
• innovation
• regulation
• research & development (R&D)
• technology policy

• PROGNOS AG, Basel, Switzerland

  Gerhard Becher

• Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, Karlsruhe, Germany

  Stefan Kuhlmann

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