Long-term success of science and technology policies and policy making need to assess and predict the results and effects of policies, regular feedbacks of outcomes based on specified criteria, and establishing on an effective and reliable monitoring system. In such a context, the role and importance of evaluating science and technology policies become clear. This article tries to suggest a plan for the framework and system of STI policy evaluation in Iran based on explaining the position of policy evaluation in the policy cycle as a dimension of this process that is present and has impact on every other component, and by implementing a meta-framework to analyze policy evaluation established on two bidimensional concepts: Conceptual-Applied and static-dynamic.
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