Evaluating Applied Research: Lessons from Japan

by Dale T. Irvin

The issue of how to achieve value for money from government-funded R&D has over recent years become increasingly important in all industrial nations. The findings of a study which surveys the methods and techniques used to evaluate applied research in Japan are presented. Their analysis determines what lessons can be learned from the approaches to evaluation employed in the main Japanese mission-oriented agencies, in particular MITI and the Science...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780939450
• ISBN13: 9781780939452
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"