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November 4 th , 2011 @ AEA 2011, Anaheim CA

An Improved Approach of Research Unit Evaluation at the Beginning of the Third Research Term of AIST. November 4 th , 2011 @ AEA 2011, Anaheim CA Takashi YOSHIMURA* 1 , Yoshiaki Tamanoue 2 , Masashi Suzuki 1 , Shigeko Togashi 1 , Hidenori Endo 1 and Kanji Ueda 1 (1. Evaluation Department,

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November 4 th , 2011 @ AEA 2011, Anaheim CA

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  1. An Improved Approach of Research Unit Evaluation at the Beginning of the Third Research Term of AIST November 4th, 2011 @ AEA 2011, Anaheim CA Takashi YOSHIMURA*1, Yoshiaki Tamanoue2, Masashi Suzuki1, Shigeko Togashi1, Hidenori Endo1 and Kanji Ueda1 (1. Evaluation Department, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) (2. Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) 1

  2. Missions of AIST • Contribution to the following five missions for the development of society through advancement of industrial technology • A sustainable society • Industrial competitiveness • Local industrial development • Industrial technology policies • Human development for enhanced technical management 2

  3. AIST Chugoku AIST Hokkaido AIST Shikoku AIST Tsukuba Headquarters / AIST Tsukuba AIST Tohoku AIST Kyushu AIST Kansai AIST Chubu AIST Tokyo Waterfront National network of AIST • The headquarters are located in Tokyo and Tsukuba with nine regional centers throughout the country. 3

  4. AIST organization at the third research term (2010 to 2015 : five fiscal years) (As of April 1, 2011) 4

  5. Research units by various industrial fields in AIST (As of April 1, 2011; no. of research units: 43) 5

  6. Integrations to realize the “Open Innovation Hub” strategy in AIST • Contribution to society: “social outcomes” AIST is enhancing the “open innovation hub” functions. Open innovation hub 6

  7. Evaluation from the viewpoint of “social outcome” Evaluation from the viewpoint of value creation as outcome AIST’s Activities Final Outcome Direct Outcome Output Input ・Innovative Materials ・Innovative Knowledge ・Innovative Software ・Measurement Standards ・Geological Maps, etc ・Developing New Industries ・Creating Cultural/ Socioeconomic Values ・ Realization of Safe & Secured Society ・New Products ・New Processes ・Knowledge Diffusion, etc ・Budget ・Human Resources Collaboration Tech. Transfer Research & Development Propagation ・Collaboration with Industry ・Start-up Venture Business ・Academic Association ・Capacity Building for Industry ・Contribution to Policy Making Plan/Action Management Infrastructures For Industry, etc For Society Know-how, Knowledge, Facilities, etc

  8. R&D evaluation system of AIST • Framework of evaluation system in the 3rd research term • Research unit evaluation • Research unit recommendation • Follow-up for research unit evaluation National Inst. Evaluation Committee (AIST branch) METI Research term target Presidentof AIST Research term plan Report Evaluation Resource allocation, Reorganization Report Report Evaluation department Results Follow-up for evaluation Research unit evaluation Research unit recommendation Evaluation results Discussions Report & Presentation Research unit (center, institute, initiative) 8

  9. Research unit evaluation of AIST • Purposes • Activation and efficient management of research units • Reference for the top management of AIST • Accountability to the Japanese nation • Evaluation indexes • Roadmaps of the research unit • Outputs of each research theme in the unit • Contributions to society • Research unit management 9

  10. The improvements in research unit evaluation at the third research term • We attempted to • Increase the number of external reviewers of the evaluation committee • Reduce the burden of the evaluation process • Strengthen the recommendation function of the evaluation committee 10

  11. Role of reviewers in evaluation • External reviewers • Specialists and intellectuals outside of AIST • 5 to 7 for each research unit • Main role: evaluation of roadmaps and outputs for each research theme from the viewpoints of “social outcomes” • Internal reviewers • From evaluation department (two for each research unit) • Main role: evaluation of research unit management 11

  12. Background of the external reviewers • Reviewers from the industry sector have been highly recommended at the 3rd research term.⇒ increase of discussions toward product realization research in the evaluation committee

  13. Comments of reviewers for innovation promotion • External reviewers: various comments, in particular, advices for collaboration with industry • Internal reviewers: relatively more comments for collaboration with academia and industry

  14. Summary of improvements in evaluation • Increase of useful comments from the viewpoints of social outcomes • By reviewers from industry and journalism • Feedback of evaluation results to presidents of AIST for recommendations to the management • Before research unit reorganization and resource allocation for the next fiscal year • Evaluation guideline have been reconsidered to reduce the burden of the evaluation process. • Sufficient promotion of evaluation system to reviewers before a meeting of the evaluation committee • Rearrangement of evaluation indexes 14

  15. Our approaches for evaluation system are now proceeding...We welcome any comments or suggestions, and please visit to our website. http://www.aist.go.jp/index_en.html 15

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