国の研究開発評価の評価 : 身近な事例の分析(<特集>我が国の公共セクターにおける研究・イノベーションの評価システムとマネジメント)

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This paper tries a meta-evaluation of national R & D in Japan, and discusses the issues, based on only the information available in public, for the two cases that the author was involved in as a principal investigator and a reviewer. Those two cases indicate that national R & D has not always been evaluated in a transparent or fair manner. Further, these analyses show that the evaluation of national R & D is rather "backward-looking," and little feedback is provided to the investigators. The case studies never indicate that the Council of Science and Technology Policy (CSTP) neglected its duties. Rather, it would be fair to assume that CSTP is absolutely serious when it comes to the evaluation of national R & D given the intense pressure it works in. However, the case studies show that CSTP is too focused on specific projects, particularly on large-scale R & D projects, and its reviews are somewhat chaotic. Further, it seems that CSTP has not considered the governance of evaluation, except for the discussions held during the review of the National R & D Evaluation Guidelines. The author presumes that under the current resource, CSTP is more focused on specific R & D projects. This paper suggests that CSTP should narrow the range of R & D project evaluation and increase its efforts with regard to the governance of evaluation.
2010-05-14