Contrastive Analysis of Approaches and Frameworks in Evaluating Innovation

The literature existing in innovation evaluation can be studied in two ways: 1) innovation evaluation at company level 2) innovation evaluation at national level. Innovation evaluation at company level is useful to make decisions in allocation of resources for innovation activities، to choose the fields in which innovation is expected to produce high economical return، and also to manage innovation strategies inside the enterprises. At national level policymakers need the information acquired from innovation evaluation in studying the existing situation، future developments trend، getting feedback from positive and negative effects of the existing policies، and making appropriate policies. According to the literature related to the title of the study، we have tried to mention the similarities and differences of the studies done in innovation evaluation by contrastive analysis of them. In similarity section، innovation process and technological changes measurement are mentioned. Also in differences section the level of analysis and providing indicators for measuring all three fields of systematic process of innovation are mentioned.