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Abstract #301334

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Activity Number: 434
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Thursday, August 12, 2004 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Government Statistics
Abstract - #301334
Title: The Advanced Technology Program: Evaluation of Best Practices and Results
Author(s): Stephanie Shipp*+ and Connie Chang and Lorel Wisniewski
Companies: National Institute of Standards and Technology and Advanced Technology Program and ATP
Address: Advanced Technology Program, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899-4710,
Keywords: Advanced Technology Program ; private returns ; program evaluation ; R&D surveys ; social returns ; evaluation toolkit
Abstract:

The Economic Assessment Office of the Advanced Technology Program (ATP) measures the economic impact of program funding of high-risk, enabling technologies, and seeks to increase understanding of underlying relationships between technological change and economic phenomena. The National Academy of Sciences has praised ATP's evaluation program as "one of the most rigorous and intensive efforts of any U.S. technology programs." ATP's evaluation efforts were put into place for four reasons: to meet external requests for ATP program results; to use evaluation as a management tool to meet program goals and to improve program effectiveness; to understand ATP's contribution to the U.S. innovation system, and to develop innovative methodologies to measure the impact of public R&D investment. To do this, ATP economists track progress throughout each project's life and into the post project period by conducting surveys, compiling data, producing statistical analyses, undertaking economic studies, and commissioning external studies with consultants and research economists. This paper will describe the evolution of ATP's evaluation activities and more.

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