Study On The Funding Of Scientific Research Management In Institutions Of Higher Education

In recent years, colleges and universities have become key roles in carrying out scientific research in our country by taking advantage of intellectual resources. With the prosperity of Higher Education, researches in universities and their corresponding investments start to increase sharply. Universities’participating in the national scientific research can prompt the construction of disciplines and improve the quality of reaching, as well as strengthening the links between university and society, meanwhile research funding has become an important incoming source. Since2005, in response to the State Department’s "Plan" on the establishment and improvement of science and technology funds management system, along with improving the use of financial funding in a normative, safe and effective way, China’s Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Education and other relevant departments jointly formulated the following relevant management approaches of special funds of various projects:863plans,973plans, support plans, international scientific and technological cooperation and communications, significant projects, scientific research about public service and modern agriculture and industry technology system construction. Besides, project undertakers, project teams and their members are required to follow the above instructions, thus the basic system of management approaches for special funds in our nation is established. However, some universities only emphasize on opening and finishing research projects, but ignore how research funding is operated due to superficial understandings and implementations of the research funding management approach system in our country. What is more, incomplete management system of research funding inside universities, along with loose implementation on existing management instructions will result in universities’simple management on research funding, its misappropriation, diversion, inefficient usage or even its loss, which affects the normal research work and its management. In the process of finishing and auditing the project, deviation among various understandings of the research funding can be found out from the expenditure, in addition, the design and implementation of the control mechanism inside the project undertaker can also be discovered defective.Therefore, in the process of transforming the production and industrialization since the beginning of the project, how to regulate the management of research funding, objectively and accurately assess the efficiency of the usage of research funding, strictly implement the research funding accountability system, improve the usage efficiency of research funding, and ensure the healthy development of the research consist significant contents of this thesis, which is of great theoretical importance and serves as a practical guidance. Based on this, I tried to analyze problems arose in the following processes:research funding management in Sichuan university; financial acceptance audit; university research funding usage and evaluation; accountability process. And on this basis, the management of university research funds is explored.The thesis first introduces the research topic, background, ideas, methods and rese--arch status at home and abroad; reviews financial expenditure theory, systems theory and strategic management theory related to the management of research funding; introduces the origins of the special funds and lateral research funds, along with their regulations according to the different sources of research funding; second, describes the problems in the funds management and use of university research projects, including deviation among various understandings of the research funding, the defective design and implementation of the control mechanism inside the project undertaker, accounting firms’too casual audit of the project, the lack of effective evaluation on how research funding is used and its accountability; finally, based on the existing university research funds management approach and problems lie in it, an intensified strategy towards the management of research funding in universities is proposed by placing more emphasis on the research funding in universities, strictly forcing funding usage through internal control system, strengthening supervision of the research funding audit, and building systems for both assessing the effectiveness of research funding and accountability.