循证决策体系下英国科技评估的发展及经验借鉴

Science andTechnology Policy Evaluation in An Evidence-Based Decision Making System:Lessons from the UK

本文从循证决策的起源与内涵、评估与证据的关联、科技决策的有效性和高质量评估的互动三个方面探讨循证决策给科技评估带来的影响,分析了2016年新一轮科技管理改革以来英国的科技评估制度设计、政策保障、组织体系、管理机制与特点,以及评估实践发展情况。在研究借鉴国外先进评估理念和经验的基础上,提出在中国科技管理系统中引入循证决策机制、加强科技评估制度规范建设、构建完善评估数据信息系统、探索建立评估成果共享机制、加快科技评估行业发展等政策建议。

This paper discusses the impact of evidence-based decision-making on S&T evaluation from three aspects:the origin and connotation of evidence-based decision-making,the relationship between evaluation and evidence,the interaction between the effectiveness of S&T decision-making and high quality evaluation.It analyzes the system design,policy measures,organization framework,management mechanism and their characteristics of UK’s S&T evaluation as well as the development of evaluation practice since the latest round of S&T management reform in 2016 in the UK.Based on the study of advanced evaluation concepts and experiences from foreign countries,this paper puts forward a series of policy suggestions,including introducing evidence-based decision-making mechanism into China’s S&T management system,improving S&T evaluation standard,strengthening the construction of the evaluation data information system,establishing the evaluation results sharing mechanism and accelerating the development of S&T evaluation industry.