Some reflections on the 5 th Vienna R&I policy evaluation conference

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Looking back at the structure of Vienna Evaluation Conferences• This is the fifth conference on R&I policy evaluation• They have been all driven by new issues of the time – here COVID, crisisresilience, and Transformative Innovation Policies• But de facto the conference is about new developments in the last 2/3 years• And we observe a quite similar structure between them around 4 dimensions- New methods /new processes / new data sources /and always some new theorising attempts- Evaluations issues of specific ‘subsystems’ – this year:regional innovation policies, environmental policies,higher education, large research infrastructures,firm innovation supports- Evaluations of Policy mixes and of synergies between policies(quasi absent this year)- New issues: and our of the 3 mentioned, clearly here the winner isThe evaluation of Transformative Innovation Policies