Mission-oriented evaluation system of Government-funded Research Institutes in Korea

摘要

It has been emphasized on the importance of performance evaluation of GRI(Governmentfunded Research Institutes) in Korea for the reason that the investment in GRIs is constantly increased and accounts for 45% of the national R&D budget in 2012. For measuring excellence of R&D performances, the continuous improvements for evaluation system for GRI have been made in several decades. Nevertheless, incessant needs for developing more compatible and adaptive methods to review its own mission effectively has been increasing. This study is introducing newly designed evaluation system of GRI, which is named as 'Mission-based approach' in GRI evaluation. It has several features. First, the original characteristics and mission of each institute is fully reflected from the plan review to the final evaluation. Second, it is composed of two levels of evaluations in order to enhance the accuracy of results. Lastly, the evaluation result is linked to the R&D budget based on the evaluation grade. It is expected that this method can provide a insight for more effectively assessing research performance of GRI's.