Mission-oriented Evaluation System of Government-Funded Research Institutes in Korea

It has been emphasized on the importance of performance evaluation of GRI(Govermnentfunded Research Institutes) in Korea for the reason that the investment in GRls is constantly increased and accounts for,15% of the national R&D budget in 2012. For measuring excellence of R&D performances, the continuous improvements for evaluation system GRI have been made M several decades. Nevertheless, incessant needs for developing tore compatible and adaptive methods to review its own mission effectively has been increasing. This study is introducing newly designed evaluation system of GRI, which is named as 'Mission-based approach' in GRI evaluation. It has several features. First, the original characteristics and mission of each institute is hilly reflected from the plan review to the Second, it is composed of two levels of evaluations in order to enhance the accuracy of result Lastly the evaluation result is R&D budget based on the evaluation grade. It is expected that this method can provide a insight for more perfol cted that this ethod can provide a insight for more effectively assessing researchance of GRI's.