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Proceedings 3:
Manufacturing Modernization:
Learning from Evaluation Practices and Results (1997)

Philip Shapira and Jan Youtie, editors. Manufacturing Modernization: Learning from Evaluation Practices and Results: Proceedings of Third Workshop on the Evaluation of Industrial Modernization Programs, Aberdeen Woods, Atlanta, 1996. Atlanta, GA: School of Public Policy and Economic Development Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1997.

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  Cover  
  Introduction Philip Shapira and Jan Youtie
1 Manufacturing Partnerships: Evaluation in the Context of Government Reform Philip Shapira, Gordon Kingsley and Jan Youtie
2 The Value of Manufacturing Extension Programs in America Matt Kane with Dan Luria, Jack Russell, and Chris Heye.
3 The Importance of Manufacturing Extension: A State Perspective Susan Rhoades
4 Exploring "Taxpayer-Payback Evaluation" of Manufacturing Extension: The Wisconsin Model Chris Thompson
5 Practices and Performance of Small and Larger US Manufacturers: Issues and Implications Paul Swamidass
6 Firm Performance and Evaluation: Empirical Regularities in the U.S. Microdata J. Bradford Jensen and Robert H. McGuckin
7 Toward Lean or Rich? What Performance Benchmarking Tells Us About SME Performance, and Some Implications for Extension Center Services and Mission Daniel Luria
8 The Influence of Evaluation on Technology Policy-Making and Program Justification: A State Level Perspective Rick Carlisle
9 Measuring the Impact of Manufacturing Extension Ronald S. Jarmin
10 The Impact of the New York Manufacturing Extension Program: A Quasi-Experiment Eric S. Oldsman and Christopher R. Heye
11 Toward a Cross-Case Analysis of Outcomes of Exemplary Engagements by MEP Centers Jan Youtie
12 Evaluation of Iowa State University's Center for Advanced Technology Development: Executive Summary David Roessner, Yong Lee, Philip Shapira, and Barry Bozeman
13 Estimating the Spillover Benefits of Industrial Extension Programs John Nelson and Irwin Feller
14 Social Welfare Functions in Benefit-Cost Analysis: The ROPI Approach David Burress
15 Establishing System-Wide Evaluations: Program-Centered Evaluation and The National Science Foundation's Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers Denis O. Gray
Apppendix Evaluation of Industrial Modernization: Index of Workshop Papers, 1993-1997  

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