8. Evaluating Industrial Modernization

Required

Philip Shapira, Jan Youtie, and J. David Roessner. Current Practices in the Evaluation of U.S. Industrial Modernization Programs. Research Policy, 27, 2, 1996.

Eric Oldsman and Christopher Heye, The Impact of the New York Manufacturing Extension Program: A Quasi Experiment. In: Shapira and Youtie (Eds), Manufacturing Modernization: Learning from Evaluation Practices and Results, 1997. Chapter10.

National Research Council of Canada, Assessment of the Industrial Research Assistance Program, Review Committee Report. Ottowa, Canada. November 1996. [ACROBAT *PDF 110K]

Additional Resources

U.S. General Accounting Office, Manufacturing Extension Programs: Manufacturers' Views of Services. Briefing Report, 08/07/95, GAO/GGD-95-216BR. Washington, DC: 1995. Overhead slides from this report available in [ACROBAT *PDF 169k]

Philip Shapira, Gordon Kingsley, and Jan Youtie. Manufacturing Partnerships: Evaluation in the Context of Government Reform. Evaluation and Program Planning, forthcoming 1997.

Rick Carlisle, The influence of evaluation on technology polic-making and program justification: A state-level perspective. In: Shapira and Youtie (Eds), Manufacturing Modernization: Learning from Evaluation Practices and Results, 1997. Chapter 8.

NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership: (1) MEP Evaluation Pages; (2) MEP National Data Highlights, April 1997. [ACROBAT *.PDF 75K]