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Inspired by: FP7 » Growing importance of evaluation of research programmes

version: 1 / created: 2009-11-29
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Originally submitted by: Rafael Popper
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Source of inspiration

European Commission Framework Programme for RTD (FP7)

Theme/activity of inspiration

Theme 8 - Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities

Sub-theme/area of inspiration

Use of indicators and related approaches for the evaluation of research policies and programmes

Signal's headline

(max. 9 words)
Growing importance of evaluation of research programmes

Signal's description

(approx. 150 words)
Please describe the Weak Signal (approx. 150 words)
Growing requirement for research programmes and institutions to be evaluated in terms of the extent to which they meet objectives.

Keywords

research, evaluation, policy, learning, regulation

Signal's first apperance

before 2000

Signal's potential evolution

It could lead to...
issue type of issue/development potential impact on society timeframe for the issue to become at least 50% probable
#1 most research institutions have to conform to narrower range of methods that can be readily evaluated continuation
 		mainly beneficial
 		now-2025
#2 greater concentration of research in fewer institutions that perform well continuation
 		neutral
 		now-2015
#3 evaluation tools fail to demonstrate substantial positive impact of R&D programmes, leading to crisis in STI policy discontinuation
 		very harmful
 		now-2025

Importance

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please select
Level 3: important for the European Union
Level 4: important for the whole world

Filters preventing the signal's monitoring

institutional filters (rules, laws, regulations)
political filters (party or ideological interests)

Signal's relevance for European Grand Challenges

where? please justify:
particularly relevant Europe world
Behavioural change
Ethics and abuse of S&T
Innovation dynamics

Signal's relevance for thematic research areas

please justify:
particularly relevant
Social Sciences and Humanities
Science in society
International S&T Cooperation

Pan-European strategies influencing the signal

please justify:
particularly relevant
Facilitating and promoting knowledge sharing and transfer
Increasing the efficiency and impact of public research through Joint Programming (i.e. combining national and pan-European research efforts) or the optimisation of research programmes and priorities, for example.
Fostering and facilitating coherent international cooperation in science and technology

Research-friendly strategies potentially improving understanding of the signal

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please justify:
particularly relevant
Overcoming sub-criticality and systemic failures
To be subcritical means that the effort in a particular field or subfield lacks resources, equipment or a sufficient number of researchers to achieve a desired goal
Strengthening the actors in the research-friendly ecology
(i.e. Research funding organisations, universities, businesses, Research and Technology Organisations, Researchers and Citizens)
Creating a closer link between researchers & policy-makers
(e.g. supporting both thematic and cross-cutting policies, highlighting the strategic purpose of the European Research Area, etc.