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Research on Science & Technology Talents

The Comparative Analysis of the Evaluation Policies of Scientific and Technological Talents from the Perspective of Policy Tools: A Case Study of Reform Pilot Areas 

Yang Ruijuan, Wu Xiaoyan 

(School of Economics and Management, Xi 'an Shiyou University, Xi 'an 710065, China)

Abstract: Scientific and technological talent evaluation policy is an important means to stimu⁃ late the innovation and vitality of scientific and technological talent, which plays the role of "ba⁃ ton" in the development of scientific and technological talent. If the "baton" function of the evaluation policy for scientific and technological talents is well played, it can stimulate the innovation vitality of scientific and technological talents and promote scientific and technological in⁃ novation. Comparative study of the evaluation policies of scientific and technological talents is⁃ sued by governments around the world, looking for policy differences and problems and putting forward suggestions for improvement are crucial for promoting the solid implementation of scien⁃ tific and technological talent evaluation reform. Based on the classification theory of policy tools, this paper adopts the content analysis method, takes the pilot reform regions identified in the "Work Program on Pilot Reform of Scientific and Technological Talent Evaluation" as the re⁃ search object, and follows the steps of analytical framework construction, sample selection, and policy text coding to quantitatively analyze the core content of the text of the evaluation policies of scientific and technological talents in the pilot regions. The study finds that in order to stimulate the innovation vitality of scientific and technologi⁃ cal talents, the pilot regions have continuously introduced various policies to optimize the evalua⁃ tion standards of scientific and technological talents, and established scientific evaluation mecha⁃ nisms and evaluation cycles. However, in the use of various policy tools, there are still problems in three aspects: ①Frequent use of supply-type policy tools, and imbalance in the internal struc⁃ ture of policy tools. The two supply-type policy tools of evaluation mechanism and supervision and correction are particularly frequently used in pilot areas, and over-reliance on a certain type of policy tools is difficult to promote the solid implementation of scientific and technological tal⁃ ent evaluation reform, so it is necessary to combine different types of policy tools; ② In the use of environmental policy tools, the role of "publicity and education" is neglected. The publicity and interpretation of policy documents by the government and other departments can improve the awareness of scientific and technological talents of the policy, but the pilot regions mainly focus on value-oriented and management services in the use of environmental policy tools, ignoring the importance of publicity and education;③In the use of demand-based policy tools, there is an ob⁃ vious lack of "project support". The use of "project support" in the pilot regions is obviously in⁃ sufficient compared with other policy tools, and there are even gaps in the use of Shanghai and Nanjing, which may be related to the fact that the pilot regions focus on stimulating the innova⁃ tion vitality of scientific and technological talents through the appraisal of titles and honorary rec⁃ ognition. It is recommended that the pilot regions strengthen the use of environmental and demandoriented policy tools in the future development of evaluation policies for scientific and technologi⁃ cal talents, increase project support for scientific and technological talents, increase publicity and education for typical scientific and technological talents, and strengthen the evaluation au⁃ tonomy of employing units. The pilot regions should also improve the classification and evalua⁃ tion system of scientific and technological talents, and according to the characteristics of various types of talents, the use of tools such as standard-setting and title evaluation should be refined, and the different title evaluation standards for different scientific and technological talents should be divided. The pilot regions should learn from each other's experience in applying the policy and complement each other's strengths and weaknesses. 

Key words: evaluation of scientific and technological talents; policy tools; policy text