EVAL-INNO - Innovations Evaluation

Template for RTDI Programmes and Funding Instruments

Tags: Food, Agriculture, Fisheries, and Biotechnology, Information and Communication Technologies, Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and New Production Processes, Energy, Environment (including Climate Change)

Name in English language	Development of the Research Infrastructure
URL to the document in original language	http://www.nsfb.net/?id=1231
URL to the document in English language
Link to a profile in ERAWATCH or Innovation TrendChart	http://erawatch.jrc.ec.europa.eu/erawatch/opencms/informatio n/country_pages/bg/supportmeasure/support_mig_0012?sear
Country	Bulgaria
Target Sectors	Food, Agriculture, Fisheries, and Biotechnology, Information and Communication Technologies, Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and New Production Processes, Energy, Environment (including Climate Change)
Start Year	2007
End Year	N.a.
Name of owner (parent institution)/management body (if any)	National Science Fund at the Ministry of Education, Youth and Science
Brief description	The measure aims to support the establishment of new, and improvement of existing research infrastructure in Bulgaria. It has three specific objectives: - Building and development of specialised research infrastructure for joint use by a minimum of three organisations. The infrastructure should guarantee the implementation of quality scientific research, education and training in several priority areas; - Inter-institutional integration of universities, scientific units of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and the Agrarian Academy, enterprises, NGOs, etc.; - Intensifying the link between science and business. The support measure is coordinated by the National Science Fund and the Scientific Research Department (SR Department) at the Ministry of Education, Youth and Science. The measure is separately funded due to its thematic and applied orientation, although at the same time it is related to several other research competitions of the National Science Fund, supporting research infrastructure: - Establishment of Centres of Excellence; - Integrated Scientific Centres in the Universities; - Establishment of University Science and Research Complexes; - Co-financing of a Foreign Assessment of the Scientific Institutions.
Budget in euro	6905370.00
Budget year	2009
Type of support measure	RTDI Programme
Status of the managing authority	Public (government or governed by law)
Funding source/sponsors for the activity (where applicable)
National Authority	National Science Fund at the Ministry of Education, Youth and Science

Direct beneficiaries (recipients of money	Government, University, Company, NGO, Academic/University
Scope	National
Focus of the programme or financial instrument	Research Infrastructure
Date of entry	2011-12-02 04:04:36
Last modified	2012-01-12 11:27:39
Name of the Evaluator(s)	Juliane Besters-Dilger; Enn Mellikov; Tony Forde; John Rigby
URL to the evaluation in original language	http://www.nsfb.net/?id=63
URL to the evaluation in English language
Contact Details of the Evaluators	juliane.besters-dilger@univie.ac.at; ennm@staff.ttu.ee; John.Rigby@manchester.ac.uk
Description of the evaluation methods	The evaluation method is expert interviews.
Format of the evaluation	Expert based method proposed by the evaluators (bottom-up method)
Type of evaluation	International
Reasons for carrying out the evaluation	Done on self-initiative by the authority in charge of implementing the strategy or piece of legislation
Main recommendations	One of the main findings of this report are connected to the evaluation procedure: - The numbers of meetings of expert panels should be reduced; - The internationalisation of the review procedure; - The Fund should move to electronic submission and the use of English as the language in which all proposals should be written.
Input indicators
Output indicators
Impact Indicators
Types of indicators used for the evaluation	Scientific and technological impacts (i.e. the creation of new products and processes, the creation of new research and innovation infrastructures, etc.) Social impacts (i.e. jobs created, public goods delivered, etc. )
Comments on the quality of the evaluation	The International Assessment of National Science Fund and its support measures is not comprehensive. The methodology is based solely on expert interviews. The assessment does not specify in detail the problem areas of individual programs of National Science Fund. Document focuses only on the following topics: - Types of Funding Instruments; - Top Down and Bottom up Funding - Duration of Programmes and Projects - Recommended Budget for Project and Programmes - Success rates - Evaluation Procedure - Selection/Recruitment of Evaluators - Calls or Permanent Submission - Submission Requirements for Projects – Elements and Size of Application.

Methodology of the evaluation

Sources of Information	Objective	Type of Method	Ex Ante	Interim	Terminal	Ex Post	Ad Hoc
Foresight/Technology Assessment	(Strategic) Impact Assessment Articulation and road mapping of development of new technologies	Qualitative Semiquantitative
Cost-efficiency	Assesses sustainability Assesses efficiency	Qualitative / semiquantitative methodologies
Cost-benefit analysis	Assesses sustainability Assesses efficiency	Quantitative (with qualitative elements)
Innovation Surveys	Detects trends and insights Identifies size and distribution of impacts Provides groups comparisons and changes over time	Semiquantitative (Statistical data analysis)
Benchmarking	Comparison method across different sectors Support to systemic evaluation	Quantitative (Statistical data analysis)
Macroeconomic modeling and simulation	Determine the efficiency and efficacy	Quantitative modelling methodology
Productivity analysis	Determine the efficiency and efficacy	Quantitative modelling methodology
Microeconomic evaluation studies	Provide a quantitative estimation of the impact Control for different effects: expenditures, innovation capacity	Quantitative qualitative categorical data
Control group approaches	Capture the impact of policy intervention on the programme participant entity	Quantitative Modelling methodology
Interviews and field/case studies	Impact Assessment	Qualitative Semiquantitative					X
Expert Panels/Peer Review	Impact Assessment	Qualitative Semiquantitative					X
Network Analysis	Impact Assessment Assesses Co-operation linkages	Qualitative Semiquantitative

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