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Proceedings 4:
Manufacturing Modernization:
Implications of Evaluation Results for Program Improvement and Policy Development (1998)

Philip Shapira and Jan Youtie, editors. Manufacturing Modernization: Implications of Evaluation Results for Program Improvement and Policy Development: Proceedings of Fourth Workshop on the Evaluation of Industrial Modernization Programs, Aberdeen Woods, Atlanta, 1997. Atlanta, GA: School of Public Policy and Economic Development Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1998.

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Table of Contents
Preface Philip Shapira and Jan Youtie

Part I. Strategy and Evaluation in the MEP
1 Integrating Strategy and Evaluation in the Manufacturing Extension Partnership Eric Oldsman and Dan Luria
Part I: Discussion

Part II. Results and Implications from Program Evaluation Studies
2 Manufacturing Extension and Productivity Dynamics: Preliminary Evidence Ron Jarmin
3 Evaluating Industrial Modernization: Methods, Results, and Insights from the Georgia Manufacturing Extension Alliance Philip Shapira and Jan Youtie
4 Evaluation of Massachusetts Manufacturing Partnership: Selected Findings Steven Ellis
Part II: Discussion

Part III. Organizational Arrangements to Promote Industrial Modernization
5 Benchmarking Manufacturing Extension Centers Tab Wilkins
6 MEP Partnerships and the SBDC Program Jan Youtie and Philip Shapira
7 Inter-firm Collaboration as a Modernization Strategy: A Survey of Case Studies Gordon Kingsley and Hans Klein
Part III: Discussion

Part IV. Comparative Standpoint
8 Developing Company Technological Capability: A Learning Perspective Erik Arnold
Part IV: Discussion

Part V. Using Evaluative Information in Decision Making
9 How the Chicago Manufacturing Center Uses Evaluation in Decision Making Natalie Davila
10 Western New York MTC Uses Evaluative Information for Continuous Improvement Robert J. Martin
Part V: Discussion

Part VI. Feedback of Evaluation Results into Program Design and Policy
11 The MEP Evaluation Approach: Past, Present, and Future David W. Sears and Phillip Blackerby
12 Rapporteur’s Comments Edward Malecki
Part VI: Discussion

Apppendix
Index of Papers Presented at the Atlanta Workshops on the Evaluation of Industrial Modernization, 1993 – 1997.

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