跨越科技评价的“马拉河”

To Cross the Mara River: Thoughts on Breakthrough Point of Research Evaluation Reform in China

科技评价问题成为久攻不破的堡垒,学界、政府和社会不断争议和探索,正如百万迁徙角马在跨越马拉河前的徘徊与尝试。文章分析提出我国科技评价问题难以解决的根本原因在于没有厘清政府与科学的关系,没有处理好整体推进和重点突破的关系,没有赋予处于学术高地机构以特殊政策和自主权,使之发挥"领头角马"的作用,率先实现从"此岸"到"彼岸"的跨越,构建起以追求卓越为价值导向的评价体系。由此,文章尝试提出科技评价改革的"领头角马"理论,即发挥好"领头角马"的作用是科技评价改革的突破口之所在,并结合我国实际提出相应的政策建议。

The question of research evaluation appears to be a bastion which is hard to breach, while the academia, government, and society have been continutely disputing and attempting to make breakthroughs, which is just like the hundreds of wildebeest wandering and attempting to cross the Mara River. This paper analyzes that the fundamental reason why China＇s research evaluation is difficult to solve is that it does not clarify the relationship between the government and the science, does not deal with the relationship between the overall advancement and the key breakthrough, and does not give the special policy and autonomy of the academic highland to paly the role as ＂Leading Wildebeest＂, so as to take the leap from the shore to the other, and to build reseach excellence-driven evaluation system. In this paper, we attempt to put forward the theory of ＂Leading Wildebeest＂, which is the breakthrough point of research evaluation reform in China, and put forward the corresponding policy suggestions in the light of the reality of China.