Performance-based university research funding systems
Performance-based university research funding systems
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DOI：
10.1016/j.respol.2011.09.007
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发表时间：
2012-03-01
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影响因子：
7.2
通讯作者：
Hicks, Diana
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作者：
Hicks, Diana
近几十年来，大学的研究环境发生了深刻的变化，基于绩效的研究资助制度(PRFS)是引入的众多新鲜事物之一。本文试图从PRFS积累的经验中找到一般性的经验教训，这些经验有助于丰富我们对研究、政策和创新系统如何演变的理解。该文件还将可持续发展战略的经验与公共管理文献，特别是新公共管理，以及对公共部门绩效评估系统的理解联系起来。研究发现，减贫战略是复杂的、动态的系统，平衡同行审查和衡量标准，适应不同领域之间的差异，并涉及与学术界的长期协商以及数据和结果的透明度。尽管PRFS的重要性似乎是基于它们对大学研究经费的分配，但这在某种程度上是一种错觉，文献一致认为，正是PRSF创造的声望竞争在大学系统内创造了强大的激励。文献表明，在适当的情况下，PRFS将加强专业精英的控制。由于PRFS的目标是卓越，可能会损害其他重要的价值观，如公平或多样性。它们不会服务于提高研究的经济相关性的目标。(C)2011爱思唯尔B.V.保留所有权利。
The university research environment has been undergoing profound change in recent decades and performance-based research funding systems (PRFSs) are one of the many novelties introduced. This paper seeks to find general lessons in the accumulated experience with PRFSs that can serve to enrich our understanding of how research policy and innovation systems are evolving. The paper also links the PRFS experience with the public management literature, particularly new public management, and understanding of public sector performance evaluation systems. PRFSs were found to be complex, dynamic systems, balancing peer review and metrics, accommodating differences between fields, and involving lengthy consultation with the academic community and transparency in data and results. Although the importance of PRFSs seems based on their distribution of universities' research funding, this is something of an illusion, and the literature agrees that it is the competition for prestige created by a PRSF that creates powerful incentives within university systems. The literature suggests that under the right circumstances a PRFS will enhance control by professional elites. PRFSs since they aim for excellence, may compromise other important values such as equity or diversity. They will not serve the goal of enhancing the economic relevance of research. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.