Huge amount of funds "fighting against water drift" exposes the disadvantages of scientific research management

Source: economic reference daily August 5, 2015 it is reported that McKinsey recently released a report entitled "the global effect of China's innovation", which compares the investment and return on scientific research of China, the United States, Japan and Germany Since 2006, the absolute value of Chinese government's investment in scientific research and innovation has reached the second level in the world, second only to the United States, but the input-output ratio is still disproportionate Many netizens said that China's high investment in scientific research and low output are due to unreasonable and unscientific application, distribution, use and acceptance of scientific research funds The urgent task is to learn from the experience of developed countries, improve the allocation and management system of scientific research funds, so that the huge amount of scientific research funds will no longer be "floating" Some netizens said that at present, in the management of scientific research funds, a small number of people hold the decision-making power of science and technology projects, resulting in the power rent-seeking space, leading to the phenomenon of scientific research corruption Some scientific researchers are busy in building relationships, running projects, reiterating that they are not willing to pay attention to research, or even using projects as a means of "encircling money" Wu Jiang, a netizen, said that at present, in universities and scientific research institutions, the best people can get scientific research projects, that is, people who can get money No matter how high the level of scientific research is, there is no way to get the project and money If you can get the project and money, you can do nothing or even have no scientific researchers You can contract it Lu Liqin, a netizen, said that there are many scientific research funds and personnel, but the distribution mode, research direction and achievements are all "biased": the allocation of funds is not entirely based on academic ability, but is affected by the level of the unit, administrative position and public relations ability "Government universities ask big questions and have a lot of power and funds", and many funds are contracted by the "boss" at all levels; at the same time, due to the 「 Paper oriented ", many institutions take publishing papers as the main measurement index, which makes many scientific research topics and research content" behind closed doors ", divorced from the actual demand and wasted a lot of innovation investment To improve the distribution and management system, "Wujiang", a netizen, believes that we should learn from international experience and practices and improve the distribution and management system of scientific research funds The current scientific research system basically belongs to the centralized management type, that is to say, the application scope is defined by the superior scientific and technological competent department Scientific research institutions can only close to the application guide when selecting topics Scientific research projects do not come from market demand, which often results in no one paying attention to the research results In this regard, we should adhere to the reform direction of market-oriented resource allocation, so that more scientific research projects come from enterprises Xiao Yinglin, a netizen, said that when the investment mechanism of scientific research funds cannot be changed for the time being, great efforts should be made in the internal adjustment of the mechanism, and the subject acceptance should be strictly carried out, instead of falling into the mire of the acceptance process and the results being ignored Some netizens pointed out that, in a sense, it is an urgent task at this stage to establish a scientific and technological evaluation system in line with the laws of scientific research, create a good scientific research environment, and make researchers devote themselves to research, even more important than increasing the investment in scientific research funds Zhang Hong, a netizen, said that there must be effective punishment measures for scientific research misconduct In developed countries, relevant foundations have the right to prohibit scientific researchers with serious academic misconduct from submitting scientific research applications, and recover their research funds, which makes it difficult for them to engage in scientific research activities again Such severe punishment measures make scientific research misconduct to a large extent contained In China, there are still many loopholes in the corresponding punishment mechanism and supervision mechanism, which need to be greatly improved.