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Evaluating Evaluations of Innovation Policy: Exploring Reliability, Methods, and Conflicts of Interest

In: Questioning the Entrepreneurial State

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  • Elias Collin

    (School of Economics and Management, Lund University)

  • Christian Sandström

    (Jönköping International Business School
    The Ratio Institute)

  • Karl Wennberg

    (Stockholm School of Economics)

Abstract

Expansions of innovation policies have been paralleled with an increase in the evaluations of such policies. Yet, there are few systematic evaluations of how such evaluations are conducted, by whom, and their overall conclusions. We analyze 110 evaluations of innovation policy in Sweden from 2005 to 2019. Our findings show that the majority of these evaluations are positive, about one-third are neutral in their conclusions, and very few are negative. The majority of evaluations were conducted by consulting firms, close to one-third by expert government agencies, and around 10% by university researchers or as self-evaluations by the governmental agencies responsible for the policy themselves. Few evaluations employed causal methods to assess the potential effects of policies. We discuss conflicts of interest and question the reliability of evaluations of innovation policy.

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  • Elias Collin & Christian Sandström & Karl Wennberg, 2022. "Evaluating Evaluations of Innovation Policy: Exploring Reliability, Methods, and Conflicts of Interest," International Studies in Entrepreneurship, in: Karl Wennberg & Christian Sandström (ed.), Questioning the Entrepreneurial State, pages 157-173, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:inschp:978-3-030-94273-1_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-94273-1_9
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    1. Büchele, Stefan & Bünstorf, Guido & Cantner, Uwe & Dreier, Lukas & Meurer, Petra & Neumann, Liam Paul, 2024. "Commissioned project evaluations of research and innovation policy in Germany: A review," Studien zum deutschen Innovationssystem 11-2024, Expertenkommission Forschung und Innovation (EFI) - Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation, Berlin.
    2. Kállay, László & Takács, Tibor, 2023. "The impact of public subsidies on investment and growth: Policy about evaluation, selection and monitoring," Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier, vol. 45(5), pages 895-909.

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