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TRANSFORM is a coordination and support action funded under the SwafS-14 call topic of Horizon 2020 to help implement the principles and practices of RRI – Responsible Research and Innovation – into institutions, policies and practices of innovation at the regional scale. To this effect, the project involves itself in processes of innovation, policy-making and practice in three European regions: Lombardy, Catalonia and the Brussels-Capital region, our so-called “clusters”. The project initiatives include efforts to introduce RRI approaches into S3 policies in the three regions. Implementation of RRI or any other approach should come with a strategy for monitoring and evaluating the progress of that approach. This deliverable, D7.1, is the first version of the main strategic document of WP7, namely “TRANSFORM’s Monitoring and Evaluation Guide”. As such it reports the results from project task 7.1 “Mapping of TRANSFORM’s ecosystem of monitoring and evaluation practices” and the first results from project task 7.2 "Design of TRANSFORM’s own suite of monitoring and evaluation activities”. Task 7.1 showed that while there is no shortage of proposed RRI indicators and monitoring practices suggested in the literature, relatively little is done at the regional level, or even fit for use at the regional level. There is, however, a firm commitment in the three TRANSFORM regions to implement RRI in their innovation policies, and with this commitment comes the need for monitoring and to some extent also indicators. D7.1 analyses the needs for monitoring and evaluation in terms of the set of different purposes that such monitoring and evaluation will have, and in terms of the types of causal narratives (“theories of change”) that are relevant for the project actions. The outcome of this analysis is a set of possible monitoring practices, indicators and success criteria for each type of purpose. This set includes monitoring of RRI learning as double-loop learning; a place-based version of the AREA framework for responsible innovation; a design for monitoring innovation for the common good by use of Boltanski’s and Thévenot’s theory of orders of worth; and the use of typologies for the quality of public participation. In sum, this provides TRANSFORM with a menu from which the consortium will continue to choose and co-create the actual monitoring practices and indicators of choice. |
