变革性研究:概念、典型特征及其培育机制

Transformative Research: Definition, Typical Characteristics and Cultivation

变革性研究(Transformative research,TR)是彻底改变人们对现有科学的认知,或创造新范式、新领域、引领新前沿的研究。面对大国竞争之新变局,加强对TR的前瞻识别和培育,是“破局”之关键。我国政府及相关学者在具体实践中,对TR、突破性研究、革命性科学等概念和特征缺乏清晰的界定,这终将影响国家的破局进程。本文采用文献调研法、比较分析法对国内外TR相关文献和政策文本进行系统梳理,深入探究TR的本质及相近概念的异同,归纳梳理TR的典型特征和国外资助实践,为构建中国式TR培育机制提供政策建议。

Transformative research(TR)challenges or disrupts current research paradigm,radically changes our current scientific understanding,thus promotes the step-changing development of human knowledge.Facing the confront between China and the United States(U.S.),enhancing the foresight on TR identification and early cultivation is the key to break the trap.However,the lack of a clear boundaries between TR and its similar concepts is easily to cause policy confusion and cognitive biases,and finally affect the competition between our government and the U.S.This study analyzed the relevant literature based on literature analysis and comparison method,explored the very nature of TR as well as the difference between TR and its similar concepts,thus trying to provide some meaningful suggestions.