Performance Evaluation For The Nation's Strategic Basic Research

Competitions among countries have been moving forward to the field of Basic research in the era of knowledge-based economy, and national interests are prominently reflected in its basic research activities. As one of the country's important strategic resources, basic research, therefore, has a distinct orientation towards the nation's strategic target. Performance appraisal for basic research has become a very important means of R&D management, and being widely concerned nowadays. And evaluating the performance of the nation's strategic basic research is even more urgent.The strategic basic research of the nation is a type of basic research, which aims at some significant science issues concerning the national economy, social development and the development of science itself as well. Performance evaluation for the nation's strategic basic research not only deals with the science value of its innovative outcome, but the comprehensive social economic value of its impacts. What to do first, according to the requirements of such performance evaluation, is to define the performance objective and performance criterion of the nation's strategic basic research. Under the guidance of the specific performance objective and performance criterion, the most essential task of evaluating its performance is to carefully select its performance indicators through different point of view and construct a reasonable and effective indicator system to evaluate its input, efficiency, outcome and impact as well.However, performance evaluation for basic research is an entirely new systematic work, and only at its infancy, thus needs further improving. Furthermore, traditional definition for basic research has been rooted among science with its limitations, which adds more difficulties concerning the performance evaluation for basic research. What has been discussed in this thesis about performance evaluation for the nation's strategic basic research is just a beginning in the course of performance appraisal for basic research, which also needs practical improvements and amendments towards its maturity.