Looking back at the structure of Vienna Evaluation Conferences • This is the fifth conference on R&I policy evaluation • They have been all driven by new issues of the time – here COVID, crisis resilience, and Transformative Innovation Policies • But de facto the conference is about new developments in the last 2/3 years • And we observe a quite similar structure between them around 4 dimensions - New methods /new processes / new data sources / and always some new theorising attempts - Evaluations issues of specific ‘subsystems’ – this year: regional innovation policies, environmental policies, higher education, large research infrastructures, firm innovation supports - Evaluations of Policy mixes and of synergies between policies (quasi absent this year) - New issues: and our of the 3 mentioned, clearly here the winner is The evaluation of Transformative Innovation Policies