Impact assessment plan for
ANR activities: first steps
Accountability workshop
Paris, June 2012.
MG / June 15, 2012
Tracing the impacts 1
ANR
Process 1
Agent
Behaviour
Tracing the impacts 2
ANR
Process 1
Agent
Defining the structure of
consequences: « impact of… »
Behaviour
Agent 2
Tracing the impacts 3
Other influences
ANR
Process 1
Agent
Defining the structure of causes:
« impact from… »
Behaviour
Tracing the impacts 4
Other influences
Agent
Behaviour
ANR
Process 1
Agent
Complexity of the impact
network: how to affect causes to
effects?
Behaviour
Agent 2
Impact of the generic structure of the
projects
…….
….
Other
structures
Epistemological
structure of the
projects
resear
chers
Imitation
Other
funders
Pertinency
relevance
K
acceleration
Quality
methodology
Survey : opinions of
researchers and
project leaders; case
studies
Impact of projects seen as contracts
Accountability
Contracts with
deliverables and
follow up
Project
leaders ,
instituti
ons
Improvement
Management
Knowledge of
costs
Survey: project leaders and institutions
managers
Impact of size of the projects
Size allowed by
the budgets
resea
rchers
Increase
of
relations
Dilution of
institutions
Transdisciplinarity
Allow
complex
projects
Preference
for big
Survey: project leaders, case
studies
Impact of the number of projects
Research
leaders
Increase of transaction costs
1500/year
Path dependency
Other
agencies
Imitation
Survey: projects leaders, institutions
Increasing amount of funding
Publishing
Patents
+ 1,5 B€/ year
Researc
hers
Teams
Equipment
International participation
to science
Survey: distribution impact
Re-structuration
Security of funding
Allows elaboration of
research strategies
Medium term & Long
term funding
Researchers
and
institutions
Survey and case studies
Security in funding
Flexibility for future
investment
Impact of « white program »
Liberation of
initiatives and
creativity
Non thematic,
discovery program
Researchers
Breakthrough
Survey: sample, open survey,
case studies
Impact on human resources
Employment
Junior grants,
Post doc
(return)
Indivi
duals
New employment
trajectories
Professor
chairs,
Contracts
Institu
tions
Surveys: beneficiaries, report
Flexibility, efficiency in
research
Impact of the selection process
teams
Selection process
(international
standard)
Other
agencies
Reputation
Knowledge skills
Experts,
members of
committees
Excessive request
Increasing scarcity
Report, Survey
Time consumption
Impact on Public Private Partnership
Enabling « climate » for
partnerchip
Public
research
PP Calls
« Carnot »
Number of projects
Emergence
call
Dialogue
Private
sector
Report, survey, case studies
Results: start up,
patents…
Impact of the consulting process
7 Sc. Committees
Epistolary
consultation
Sc
communi
ties
Improvement of
strategies
ARP (prospective)
Steering comm.
…
Research
institutions
Preparation to the calls
Survey
What do we intend to do?
• Surveys
– General, all research units
– ANR beneficiaries and « rejected »
– Samples
• Case studies
• Main objectives:
–
–
–
–
Impact of project : methodology, funding
Impact of programming
Impact on human resource
Impact on partnership (firms)
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