It would be committed to carry out regular evaluations of policy programmes. Comparable Latin American countries such as Chile and Uruguay offer alternative models that could be relevant for Costa Rica (Box 5.5). In other cases countries established separate agencies, typically one in change of innovation support (generally referred to as innovation agencies, such as Vinnova in Sweden or Tekes in Finland) and one (or more than one) in charge of the allocation of competitive scientific research grants (generally referred to as research councils) as in the case of the Swedish and British research councils or the Academy of Finland. These professionalised research agencies are typically responsible for rigorous and independent monitoring and evaluation of the public research system. They depend on a number of factors which have to do with the level of development, the structure and openness of the economy, the specificity of institutional contexts, the endowment in natural resources, the initial conditions regarding the strength and organisation of the S&T capacities, the articulation between components of the STI system, and the framework conditions that impinge upon innovation performance.