Assessment of scientific programs: a necessary procedure for Brazilian scientific policy - the Young Investigator Program of the State of São Paulo Research Foundation
Abstract:Programs of Science and Technology research have grown significantly in Brazil over the last decades. Until the 1980s the so-called undirected programs, without specific goals and requiring only scientific merit, prevailed. The few programs with defined goals in this period were never objectively assessed. The same situation occurred in developed countries. In the early 1990s, the assessment of programs supported by public funding became mandatory in US and some European countries. In Brazil, program assessmen… Show more
“…Comparisons among countries related to academic pathways to reach a professorship, or even about doctors' employment opportunities, are always hard to do since academic relationships, educational systems are very different and presents political and cultural aspects. 2 Results found in this evaluation evidence that YIEC has reached some of targets, mainly concerning the research activity in private institutions. This program was a very important instrument to create the basic infrastructure for research activities in this type of HI opening new opportunities to recent doctors.…”
“…This paper intends to present main results from an external evaluation of this program, covering a period from 1996 to 2006. This evaluation seeks to complete a first one done by Pian and Menegini [2].…”
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confidence: 99%
“…In Germany, the Emmy Noether Program also tries to fund excellent young researchers in postdoctoral phase as an alternative path to the traditional way to reach professional qualification[8]. Comparisons among countries related to academic pathways to reach a professorship, or even about doctors' employment opportunities, are always hard to do since academic relationships, educational systems are very different and presents political and cultural aspects 2. Results found in this evaluation evidence that YIEC has reached some of targets, mainly concerning the research activity in private institutions.…”
São Paulo Research Foundation, FAPESP, has implemented an award program as a way to develop new research centers and to provide more opportunity to recent doctors, or productive doctors without regular job position, the "Young Investigator in Emerging Centers" (YIEC). This paper intends to present main results from an external evaluation of this program, covering a period from 1996 to 2006. Results found in this evaluation evidence that YIEC has reached some of targets, mainly concerning the research activity in private institutions. This program was a very important instrument to create the basic infrastructure for research activities in this type of HI opening new opportunities to recent doctors. The creation and improvement of research groups out of the excellence axe also should be highlighted, since it is one of the main goals. In general, the impact in institutions could be considered expressive, since that even new graduation courses were created, and the impact in post-graduation programs was expressive, improving and creating new disciplines and courses.
“…Comparisons among countries related to academic pathways to reach a professorship, or even about doctors' employment opportunities, are always hard to do since academic relationships, educational systems are very different and presents political and cultural aspects. 2 Results found in this evaluation evidence that YIEC has reached some of targets, mainly concerning the research activity in private institutions. This program was a very important instrument to create the basic infrastructure for research activities in this type of HI opening new opportunities to recent doctors.…”
“…This paper intends to present main results from an external evaluation of this program, covering a period from 1996 to 2006. This evaluation seeks to complete a first one done by Pian and Menegini [2].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In Germany, the Emmy Noether Program also tries to fund excellent young researchers in postdoctoral phase as an alternative path to the traditional way to reach professional qualification[8]. Comparisons among countries related to academic pathways to reach a professorship, or even about doctors' employment opportunities, are always hard to do since academic relationships, educational systems are very different and presents political and cultural aspects 2. Results found in this evaluation evidence that YIEC has reached some of targets, mainly concerning the research activity in private institutions.…”
São Paulo Research Foundation, FAPESP, has implemented an award program as a way to develop new research centers and to provide more opportunity to recent doctors, or productive doctors without regular job position, the "Young Investigator in Emerging Centers" (YIEC). This paper intends to present main results from an external evaluation of this program, covering a period from 1996 to 2006. Results found in this evaluation evidence that YIEC has reached some of targets, mainly concerning the research activity in private institutions. This program was a very important instrument to create the basic infrastructure for research activities in this type of HI opening new opportunities to recent doctors. The creation and improvement of research groups out of the excellence axe also should be highlighted, since it is one of the main goals. In general, the impact in institutions could be considered expressive, since that even new graduation courses were created, and the impact in post-graduation programs was expressive, improving and creating new disciplines and courses.
La gestión de la investigación académica y empresarial incluye la identificación de líneas de investigación que direccionen los fondos y los esfuerzos técnicos de grupos que se dedican a actividades de Investigación, Desarrollo e innovación (I+D+i). En el proceso de toma de decisión que orienta esta gestión, suele tener prevalencia la opinión derivada de las experiencias e intereses individuales de los investigadores por encima de la consulta objetiva de diversas fuentes que pueden proporcionar información que optimice dicho proceso.El objetivo de esta investigación fue la validación de una metodología que vincula las dos perspectivas para la toma de decisión en I+D+i, dando a conocer resultados parciales de 5 acciones propuestas para la identificación y fortalecimiento de líneas de investigación de grupos de investigación académicos y empresariales.
Dicha validación demostró la pertinencia, claridad y aplicabilidad de las acciones propuestas, lo que las convierte en herramientas útiles para la toma de decisión en investigación, tecnología e innovación y el establecimiento de líneas de investigación.
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