Ex-ante economic evaluation of agricultural research in New Zealand – a conceptual framework

Economic Evaluation of Agricultural Research in Australia and New Zealand

State governments and the Commonwealth are pursuing policies to focus research and development (R&D) resources on high priority areas and to improve the effectiveness of R&D delivery. An important aspect of improving the allocation of research resources is the establishment of an efficient system for evaluating the impact of completed research (ex-post studies) and assessing the likely returns ...

A Framework Facilitating Ex-Ante Evaluation of Information Systems

As organizations continually implement changes to their information and communication technologies (ICT) infrastructure, change has become an increasing part of "business as usual". Managers are routinely requested to justify expenditure, explain business benefits, and provide ex-ante and ex-post evaluations of ICT initiatives. Ex-ante evaluation is defined as predictive evaluation, and is ofte...

A framework for the ex-ante evaluation of ERP software

It has been widely reported that a large number of ERP implementations fail to meet expectations. This is indicative, firstly, of the magnitude of the problems involved in ERP systems implementation and, secondly, of the importance of the ex-ante evaluation and selection process of ERP software. This paper argues that ERP evaluation should extend its scope beyond operational improvements arisin...

Ex Post Evaluation of Economic Impacts of Agricultural Research Programs: A Tour of Good Practice

Physico-Economic Evaluation of Climate Metrics: a Conceptual Framework

The design of multi-gas mitigation policies requires methods for comparing the climate impact of different forcing agents—so -called metrics. A multitude of climate metrics has been presented in the literature. Key characteristics of any metric are (a) its impact function, i.e. its functional relationship to physical climate parameters, and (b) the weighting of impacts over time. In view of the...