Is there a Future for Empirical Software Engineering?

Empirical studies of different kinds are nowadays regularly published in software engineering journals and conferences. Many empirical studies have been published, but are this sufficient? Individual studies are important, but the actual potential in relation to evidence-based software engineering [1] is not fully exploited. As a discipline we have to be able to go further to make our individual studies more useful. Other research should be able to leverage on the studies and industry should be able to make informed decisions based on the empirical research.