Introduction to the Research Evaluation Workshop

摘要

For years, individuals and small groups within organisations have worked to develop the use of research evaluation as a tool for research decision-making and priority-setting. It is apparent that there has been some progress as a result of those efforts. The early work was akin to making clearings in the jungle of ignorance and subjectivity, being based on isolated evaluations of individual research areas. Now it is as though economists have set out to make roads and pathways toward a world where economic evaluation of research would be used as a basis for research decision-making and priority-setting.