科学资助中的控制权分配——以科学基金机构职能变迁为例

Distribution of controlling powers in scientific research funding: Based on an analysis of function change of selected research funding agencies

本文通过借鉴不完全契约理论拓展了委托代理模型,指出在科学资助过程中存在目标设定权、资源配置权和绩效监督权三种基本权力。三种权力在委托方、管理方和执行方之间的配置方式形成了不同类型的科学资助组织模式,导致不同类型的科学资助机构。基于这一分析框架,本文对国外科学资助机构职能设置和组织制度变迁进行总体性描述,初步检验这一理论的解释力。

Drawing on insights from incomplete contracts theory,the paper expanded the principal-agent model by conceptualizing the allocation of control rights in goal setting,resource allocation and performance supervision among the principal,supervisor and agent.The authors argue that the different modes of scientific research funding and organization setting are derived from the variations in the allocation of control rights.And then,the article illustrates the new theoretical model in a historical review on the function of selected funding organizations.