García Romero Antonio
Departamento de Economía (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) y Agencia Laín Entralgo (Comunidad de Madrid), España.
Arch Esp Urol. 2003 Jul-Aug;56(6):690-700.
The evaluation of R + D activities and the politics that promote them is essential to justify the investment done as well as to optimize their results. In this context, the evaluation should be understood as the group of techniques and procedures that allow obtaining useful information to take decisions in the field of R + D. This article has two main objectives: (i) to present the basic concepts associated with the evaluation of research, and (ii) to offer a general and updated panoramic view of which are the most frequently used methods to evaluate research. For that, in addition to considering the most conventional evaluation, focused on scientific results, we also think about the need of evaluating the impacts that scientific results generate on the social-economic context, and that in the case of biomedical research, these may be presented in terms of quality and life expectancy, improvements in patient care, etc. Therefore, the motivation of present article is to give a modern and updated perspective that allows the reader who is interested to study in-depth this emerging field of Science, if he/she wants.
对研发活动及其促进政策进行评估，对于证明所做投资的合理性以及优化其成果至关重要。在此背景下，评估应被理解为一组技术和程序，这些技术和程序能获取有用信息，以便在研发领域做出决策。本文有两个主要目标：（i）介绍与研究评估相关的基本概念，（ii）提供一个全面且最新的全景视角，展示评估研究最常用的方法。为此，除了考虑侧重于科学成果的最传统评估外，我们还思考了评估科学成果对社会经济背景产生的影响的必要性，并且在生物医学研究的情况下，这些影响可能体现在生活质量和预期寿命、患者护理的改善等方面。因此，本文的目的是给出一个现代且最新的视角，让有兴趣的读者如果愿意的话，可以深入研究这个新兴的科学领域。
