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- Title
The Evaluation of Innovations. How to Evaluate the Transformative Value of the Cohesion Policy for Managing Purposes.
- Authors
Vento, Isak
- Abstract
The Cohesion Policy aims at creating a transformative value to societies in addition to traditional public values. The implementation of Cohesion Policy has been organized by temporary organizations, such as projects, to promote innovations, knowledge and learning. The problem is that the performance concept used for managing the policy is founded on traditional technical and economic values, theoretically neglecting the benefits of innovation projects, and potentially opening up for profound steering problems. To what extent can the transformative added value of innovation projects be evaluated by the traditional performance concept? And are the traditional and the new transformative performance concepts consistent for managing purposes? In this study the performance framework is revised with regard to the benefits of projects as policy tools. The revised concept for assessing performance of projects is then statistically compared to the traditional performance concept by operationalizing them on regional development projects in Finland during the Cohesion Policy program 2007-2013. The study shows that the new performance concept is consistent in evaluating development projects' performance in a complex administrative system. The new and traditional concepts are, however, inconsistent in providing steering signals. This raises concerns for the effects of performance management of project driven policy implementation.
- Subjects
TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; SOCIAL cohesion; PERFORMANCE management; PROJECT management; COMMUNITY development; RURAL development; GOVERNMENT policy
- Publication
Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, 2017, p3
- ISSN
2001-7405
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.58235/sjpa.v21i2.11578