Overview

Our motivation

Innovation enablers are numerous, sometimes large, well-established, and influential.  And yet, as a class or organizations they lack visibility and legitimacy, in part because their performance is so difficult to measure.  But innovation enablers, especially those that rely on public sector financing, have an urgent need to demonstrate performance.  To address the needs of innovation enablers, we have developed a novel approach to measuring innovation enabler performance.

Innovation enablers as an organizational class

The Evidence Network's novel approach results from our identification of innovation enablers as an overarching class of organizations that share common mission attributes and provide many common services in support of firm innovation and success.

Measure both mission performance and service performance

Innovation enabler mission performance is assessed in terms of impact on the performance of client or member firms. Innovation enabler service performance is assessed in terms of the effectiveness of the services directed towards improving the resources and capabilities of firms that are their clients or members.

Our deliverable

We deliver timely, meaningful evidence of innovation enabler impact in the form of reports that interpret the responses of innovation enabler clients to our secure web-based surveys.  Our reports document mission performance in terms of impact on firms' revenues, product time to market, valuation, etc. and service performance in terms of the effectiveness of innovation enabler services.