求是与致用的张力:中国特色新型高校智库建设情况的调查与思考

Tension Between Seeking Truth and Meeting Practical Needs:Investigation and Reflection on the Construction of New-Type University Think Tanks with Chinese Characteristics

近年来,我国新型高校智库在经过爆发式增长后发展逐渐平缓,智库专家资源已具备一定的规模和质量,智库建设得到了高校学科优势的有力支撑,智库研究课题服务国家发展自觉性不断提升,在政策研究、人才培养、成果评价、国际传播等方面建树颇丰。尤其在推动高校学科特色化发展、为知识界参与决策咨询提供渠道、推动高校学者积极改变治学范式等方面,高校智库对哲学社会科学发展产生了积极的“溢出效应”,已然成为推动科学决策、民主决策,推进国家治理体系和治理能力现代化,增强国家软实力进程中不可或缺的有机组成部分。同时,我国新型高校智库建设还存在整体上散而不强、建设-管理-使用机制相互脱节、学术研究与决策咨询“两张皮”、智库团队“小核心空心化、大外围泛在化”等问题。面向未来,要优化高校智库目标功能上的精准定位和错位发展,加快高校智库学者话语体系转换,同时推动高校人才评价激励机制进一步向智库研究倾斜,将智库建设作为实现高校“新文科”发展的重要抓手。

In recent years,the development of new university think tanks in China has gradually slowed down after explosive growth.The expert resources of think tanks have a certain scale and quality.The construction of think tanks has been strongly supported by the advantages of university disciplines.The research topics of think tanks have continuously improved their consciousness of serving national development,and have made great achievements in policy research,talent training,achievement evaluation and international communication.In particular,in promoting the characteristic development of disciplines in colleges and universities,providing channels for the intellectual community to participate in decision-making consultations,and promoting university scholars to actively change their research paradigms,university think tanks have had a positive'spillover effect'on the development of philosophy and social sciences.It has become an indispensable organic component in promoting scientific and democratic decision-making,promoting the modernization of national governance systems and governance capabilities,and enhancing national soft power.At the same time,there are still some problems in the construction of new university think tanks in China,such as scattered but not strong as a whole,the disconnection of construction-management-use mechanism,the'two skins'of academic research and decision-making consultation,the'hollowing out of small core and the ubiquity of large periphery'of think tank teams.In the future,we should optimize the precise positioning and dislocation development of the target function of university think tanks,accelerate the transformation of the discourse system of university think tank scholars,and promote the incentive mechanism of talent evaluation in colleges and universities to further tilt to think tank research,and take the construction of think tanks as an important starting point for the development of'new liberal arts'in colleges and universities.