Abstract

Innovation agencies, that is organizations with the primary focus of funding applied research and technological development, evaluate project proposals to select the most promising proposals for funding. At the moment, there is only little verified knowledge available on project evaluation and selection processes of innovation agencies. We want to show how projects are evaluated and selected in these organizations. We want to also make a contribution for better understanding the variety of the utilized processes by pointing out the reasoning behind some of the most important practices. This article therefore focuses on the following questions: How are projects selected in innovation agencies? What are the employed procedures and practices? Are there differences in procedures and practices and what would be the reason for these differences? The basis for answering these questions is a study produced for the European Association of National Innovation Agencies, Taftie. There we have analysed the project selection procedures of 18 programmes run by 12 European innovation agencies. To do so, we have produced an overview of existing selection procedures of the innovation agencies, analysed, and compared the procedures along the stages of a typical selection process. The key points of interest were role of evaluators, selection criteria, ranking procedures, and general process issues.

中文翻译：

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如何选择最佳：创新机构的选择程序

摘要

创新机构（即主要为应用研究和技术开发提供资金的组织）评估项目建议书，以选择最有前途的资金建议书。目前，关于创新机构的项目评估和选择过程的验证知识很少。我们想展示如何在这些组织中评估和选择项目。我们还希望通过指出一些最重要的实践背后的原因，为更好地理解所利用的过程的多样性做出贡献。因此，本文重点关注以下问题：如何在创新机构中选择项目？雇用的程序和惯例是什么？程序和实践是否存在差异，这些差异的原因是什么？回答这些问题的基础是为欧洲国家创新机构协会（Taftie）进行的研究。在这里，我们分析了由12家欧洲创新机构实施的18个项目的项目选择程序。为此，我们对创新机构现有的选拔程序进行了概述，分析并比较了典型选拔过程各个阶段的程序。关注的重点是评估者的角色，选择标准，排名程序和一般过程问题。