Effective assessment
- 1. Strengthening Social Innovation in Europe: Road-map for effective assessment Neil Reeder The Young Foundation
- 2. “If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant” Plato, Philebus
- 3. Both Macro and Micro questions to face …
- 4. Challenges in developing information for policy-makers “Traditional metrics are based on a model of innovation that is increasingly less relevant … Many sectors are more dependent on ‘hidden innovation’ than on traditional science-based innovation” Hidden Innovation, National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, 2007
- 5. Challenges in developing widely accepted outcome measures QALY EQ-5D SROI Socio-economic reporting CBA
- 6. Challenges in developing an effective approach to learning “In spite of the progress in the evaluation culture, a learning system, based on impact evaluation of projects and the systematic diffusion of information that would allow the policy to improve over time, has not been created. Very little is known about what interventions did or did not work” Fabrizio Barca, 2009
- 7. Much work underway on ‘macro’ indicators OECD EPSIS MEPIN NESTA FP7
- 8. Scope for experimental indicator in Community Innovation Survey?
- 9. Focussed approach to outcome metrics?
- 10. “It seems that creating an investible Why a more world, with some monies set aside to ensure long-term sustainability and social systematic sustainability, would slightly improve the overall risk-adjusted returns of sovereign approach to wealth funds and reduce their volatility. (And I will nominate for the Nobel Prize in Economics metrics for the person who can prove this).” decision Wayne Silby, making? Innovations vol. 6 issue 3 – Impact Investing
- 11. Tools are available – but need follow- through
- 12. Bringing knowledge together? Peer learning Diversity in assessing knowledge
- 13. Directions for the future 1 year? 3 years? 5 years?