R & D Programme Evaluation: Theory and Practice

This volume identifies and compares the evaluation systems of a representative selection of national and international large scale R&D programmes based upon a framework for meta-evaluation. The 6 R+D programmes considered are the Alvey Programme (UK); the Advanced Technology Programme (US); the EUREKA initiative (European); the Human Frontier Science Programme (International); the Brite-Euram Programme (EU) and the HAN Programme (Korea).