News archive - New Publication: Regional Innovation Policy Impact, Assessment & Benchmarking Guidebook
The IRE (Innovating Regions in Europe) published a guidebook with the focus to introduce innovation policy impact assessment and benchmarking at the regional level.
Thie guidebook is based on the results and experiences of the first systematic attempt in Europe to develop tools and methodologies for Impact Assessment and Benchmarking (IA&B) of innovation policy at a regional level.
The basis of the guidebook are the results and practical experiences of eight projects of the pilot action ‘Regional innovation policy impact assessment and benchmarking’.
These projects were pioneering in Europe in creating evaluation systems based on the needs of actual regions while at the same time putting the systems in practice and ensuring that they can be universal to any regional setting.
This eight pilot actions started in June 2005, and 36 regions across Europe participated in this initiative applying different methodologies for IA&B.
The eight projects are: ARISE, EMERIPA, EUROCOOP, IASMINE, IMPACTSCAN, INNOWATCH, MERIPA, OMEN.
The chapters of the guideline deals with:
- Benefits, Difficulties and Organisation of Impact Assessment and Benchmarking
- Different Approaches & Tools
- Introduction, Approaches and Results of the Eight Pilot Projects
- Expectations of Innovation Policy and Impact Assessment and Benchmarking
The guidebook is available for download on our website:
Entry created by Martina Lindorfer on July 29, 2008
Modified on July 29, 2008
