Trajetorias e desafios da avaliação em ciencia, tecnologia e inovação / Evaluation of science, technology and innovation : trajectories and challenges

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

RESUMO

The challenges and trajectories facing evaluation practices in science, technology and innovation are directly related to the comprehension of the links between evaluation, learning and actor s participation. A general analytical framework is proposed to discuss the evaluation practices fundamentals, their methodological variability and their main threats. Some important problems are highlighted, as the logical limits to social choice, the causal attribution between phenomena, the legitimacy of objective structures vis a vis the inexorable subjective influences. Part I presents in a formal way the logical and conceptual aspects of individual and collective methods and processes of evaluation. Part II presents three different institutional contexts of science and technology activities and the different methodological approaches that each one requires and legitimates. The main methods currently used to evaluate science and technology are discussed under this framework and a specific method designed to work in a network context is detailed. The institutional context of the Network Science and Technology is characterized by the coexistence of heterogeneous actors and organizations arrangements oriented to produce knowledge and innovation. At this context, elements like participation, learning and coordination effects are distinctive. These are premises of he Multi Dimensional Method of Evaluation (MDM) presented and discussed at the end of this work

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pesquisa e desenvolvimento - avaliação ciencia e tecnologia research and development evaluation inovações tecnologicas science and technology technological innovations

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