Whether it is business innovation or basic research, new quantitative methods or new micro-level and register data open up opportunities to investigate the relationships between policies and their intended effects. The aim of the panel is to facilitate an exchange on methods and data for causal evaluation in various innovation and research policies. Which opportunities can we identify, which challenges remain for an increased use of these methodological approaches in evaluations in the medium and long term?

Panellists

• Reinhilde Veugelers, KU Leuven
  Professor at the Department of Management, Strategy and Innovation, Senior fellow at Bruegel, CEPR Research Fellow, member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and of the Academia Europeana
• Guido Bünstorf, University of Kassel
  Professor and Head of Economic Policy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship-Group and member of the Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation (EFI)
• Regina Fuchs, Statistics Austria
  Director for Social Statistics and Austrian Micro Data Center (AMDC)
• Clara Calero-Medina, Leiden University
  Senior Researcher and Director of Innovation and Impact at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS)

Moderator

Thomas König, Managing Director at FORWIT - Austrian Council for Sciences, Technology, and Innovation

Panel Organisers

• Patrick Svensson-Jajko, BMBWF - Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research
• Agnes Kügler, WIFO - Austrian Institute of Economic Research
• Jürgen Janger, WIFO - Austrian Institute of Economic Research

Links:

• Keynote speech by Paul Hünermund about causality at the predecessor REvaluation Conference in 2022

This panel and thte podcast episode were inspired and supported by the Ministry of Women, Science and Research. Thank you! 

Music: Urbana-Metronica (wooh-yeah mix) (ft. Morusque, Jeris, CSoul, Alex Beroza) by spinningmerkaba http://ccmixter.org/people/jlbrock44; SouljaUnit Remix of DeadRobot Music’s Surfy via https://freesound.org/people/SouljaUnit/sounds/640175/
Photo: Martin Jordan

Thanks to our partners and co-organisers that helped realising the REvaluation Conference 2024: Ministry of Innovation, Mobility and Infrastructure, Ministry of Women, Science and Research, Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism, Vienna Science and Technology Fund, COST Action PROFEEDBACK (CA ), Meeting Destination Vienna, FH Campus Vienna, Austrian Science Fund, Austrian Research Promotion Agency, ZSI - Centre for Social Innovation, Fraunhofer ISI, Institut Francilien Recherche, Innovation et Société, Joanneum Research, the whole fteval Community. 

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