Methodolgy for the Evaluation of the Urban Technology System

摘要

The report presents an overview of the evaluation methodology for the Urban Technology System (UTS) together with specific descriptions of nine evaluation sub-studies. UTS seeks to promote technological innovation in cities and urban counties with populations of 50,000-500,000, and case studies of innovations in participating and non-participating sites. The evaluation methodology has several objectives: (1) to assess to what extent, how, and why the original objectives of the UTS system were achieved; (2) to provide policy-relevant information to a variety of audiences to help them decide whether or not to participate in, or otherwise support, the UTS or similar systems; and (3) to provide information to existing UTS participants to help them strengthen their operations. Also discussed are the organization of the study, sources for evaluation data, products of evaluation, and resource requirement and scheduling. Nine sub-studies are described: effects of UTS on the amount of innovation in local government; additional analysis of the UTS site innovations; the roles of technology agents, back-up sites, and participating governments in the implementation of UTS; key variables affecting the operation of UTS; case studies of the innovation process; diffusion of innovations by UTS and control sites; assessment of the UTS communications network; market aggregation and private sector R & D effects; and effects of UTS on public sector R & D.