Assessing collaborative, pre‐competitive R&D projects: the case of the UK LINK scheme
研究了如何评估协作性、竞争前研发项目的成果，基于英国LINK计划数据构建了一个新的绩效指标，该指标与主观评分不相关，并指出需更多关注大学、企业和政府从合作中获得的收益。
The paper addresses the evaluation of outcomes of collaborative, pre‐competitive R&D projects. It draws on some empirical analysis carried out on data and information gathered under the UK ‘LINK’ scheme, a programme supporting R&D collaborative projects and assessing collaboration outcomes. A new indicator of performance, based on the outputs of LINK projects, has been constructed. It provides a relative and quite consistent measure of performance for making comparisons among different LINK projects. However it does not correlate with the more subjective grade applied by LINK’s own management. For further improving evaluating mechanisms, more attention should be paid to the benefits that universities and companies as well as governments are drawing from R&D collaborations.