Philosophical Thinking On Public R&D Performance Evaluation In STS Perspective

On occasion of the huge contributions of science and technology to human development,social progress and economic growth,and of the variant appeals of the states across the world on the fields of competence and rival,rising,occupation and cooperation,almost all the governments are devoting themselves to accelerating the progress of researching and developing activities.From the transformation from managing ruling paradigm to performance ruling paradigm,those governments pay attention to the evaluation of the effect and the strategies of increasing input include human resources,material resources,financial resources,for occasion of this trend,the evaluation of the performance are becoming a very important tool of policy enacting and adjustment,becoming the direct respond of government to the Self accountability the respond to the public and social accountability.This study reviews the evaluative theory of efficiency,instrument and functionalism in the perspective of economics,management and policy research.It summarized and integrated into the dispersed performance evaluation research,then by reflecting upon and giving response to the basic theoretical problems of performance evaluation.As the theoretical pursuit of philosophical thinking,It aims to build a theoretical framework by meeting the need of a nation's microscopic vision and strategy,to conform to the characteristic of public R&D,to highlight the public values,to realize the comprehensive quality control on performance evaluation.Firstly,based on the perspective of STS,this research introduces the research of public R&D performance evaluation into the work of philosophy.From a historical logic analysis of historical development of public appearances helps for the STS perspective rationality.For the logic,this research starts from the principle conception of public R&D performance evaluation in the perspective of STS.Secondly,in the perspective of STS for researching public R&D performance evaluation,there are open objective and characteristics of multiple values.By surveying the current methodology of performance evaluation such as scientism,instrumentalism and then criticizing their restriction,this research proposes that there exists kind of nonidentity between the cognition on development of science&technology and social values.According this trend,it is necessary in the perspective of STS to comprehend the multiple and interactive relation,and establish the outlook of performance public R&D evaluation which is adaptive to the current scientific knowledge production.Thirdly,through the constructivist view of epistemology and analytic methods,this study holds that the public R&D performance evaluation has complex characteristics.Through WSR systematic analysis,it starts with societal running and pluralistic values constitution of performance evaluation,and then the corresponding evaluation methods are established under the guidance of the concept of performance evaluation.Finally,a theoretical level of public R&D performance evaluation system is designed and constructed,and it becomes the stay point of this study.Under the guidance of the epistemology framework and objective of the performance evaluation,it points to the internal quality of performance in terms of dimensions of cognition,value and the like,as well as the external performance in terms of dimensions of short-term and long-term performance,process and result of performance.Based on this,this study constructs the evaluation system based on the support of evaluating logic and evaluating structure and the functional objective of comprehensive quality control.It examines and extends the theoretical reflection of performance evaluation based on case study and puts forward the policy suggestions at last.