1.10: Impact
Understand the impact of policies Other Information:
Measuring the impact of policies remains a challenge. Ideally, policy- makers would like to have real- time clear evidence
on the direct impact of their choice. Instead, the effects of a policy are oftend delayed in time; the ultimate impact is
affected by a multitude of factors in addition to the policy. Timely and robust evaluation remains an unsolvable puzzle. This
is particularly true for research and innovation policy, where the results from investment are naturally expected at years
of distance. As Kuhlmann (1994) puts it, "the results of evaluations necessarily arrive too late to be incorporated into the
policy- making process".
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