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Research paper : Formation of research strategy and synthetic research evaluation based on the strategy (N. Kobayashi et al.)−29−Synthesiology - English edition Vol.4 No.1 (2011) The evaluation results of the Research Enterprise Evaluation Committee are fed back to the research institutes and used to improve the projects, and are utilized in the discussions for the management of the specific policies indicated in the “Visions of the Promotion of Science and Technology in Nagasaki”, proposal of new policies for the promotion of science and technology, and the proposal of strategic promotion fields.Excavating the hidden needs from wide-ranging fields and creating new technologies that the market needs will lead to long-term and continued economic effects, and may lead to more expansion of job opportunities. For this purpose, it is necessary to maintain strong collaboration with the related departments, and to engage in interdisciplinary strategic R&D by drawing a scenario to achieve the goal. To organize the role and the future image of the R&D and technological supports by the research institutes, it is necessary to optimize the synthesis of the R&D to be undertaken by the research institutes as programs, and to continue the synthetic research evaluation from the perspective of whether the programs are based on a long-term strategy.6 Reflection and linkage of the synthetic evaluationOne of the greatest responsibilities of the synthetic research evaluation based on the strategy formation is the reflection of the evaluation results. At AIST, the research unit evaluation is performed every two years as mentioned before, and the evaluations are performed for the purpose of (1) encouragement of research in the research units, (2) feedback to the management of AIST, and (3) execution of accountability to external and internal sectors. It is important that the evaluation results are reflected effectively.Particularly in reflecting the appraisal, the evaluation must be utilized for the optimization of the resources, environment, and conditions necessary for the R&D when establishing research units and starting projects, and in some cases, the targets must be totally revised.For the research evaluation during the progress, it is important to carry over that evaluation at that point to the next step. To do so, it is important to establish the methodology for rotating the PDCA model, and the most desirable situation is that the evaluation is fed back to the strategy spirally and is carried on to the formation of a new strategy. Moreover, in advancing the R&D, it is necessary to consider where the results are handed over and outcomes are directly produced.As an issue of research evaluation, it is necessary to have an optimal overall strategic system in which the chain of PDCA from the project to the policy level is utilized effectively by each other. The PDCA cycle with insufficient linkage cannot be considered a functioning strategic research evaluation. For a public research institute, it is important that the evaluation is always linked as a chain from the evaluation of the institute level of whether it fulfills the function expected of the government including the mission and the resource invested, to whether the government (or local government) has a policy to utilize it effectively, all the way to the policy level of whether it is positioned clearly in the innovation policy[28].7 ConclusionIn this paper, focus was placed on the formation of the research strategy based on the intrinsic properties of research and the R&D program to realize the strategy, and the research evaluation was viewed from the aspects of strategy formation and the synthetic evaluation based on the strategy. In the research evaluation until now, appraisal, interim, ex-post, and follow-up evaluations were performed, and the elements of the synthetic evaluation discussed in this paper had been incorporated. What should be emphasized here are: 1) in the research evaluation, the research strategy is extremely important, and the evaluation by comparison with the strategy should be set as the basic; 2) evaluation from the three aspects - progress, depth, and phase of the research - is necessary; and 3) a synthetic evaluation that summarized these ideas by taking abductive inference is important.Figure 12 shows the summary of the intrinsic properties of the research, formation of the research strategy, and the synthetic research evaluation based on them that were discussed in this paper, and the aim of research evaluation. The research strategy shows the targets to be achieved by the R&D and the scenario. By conducting a synthetic research Fig. 12 Research strategy formation and synthetic research evaluation considering the intrinsic properties of research Intrinsic properties of research(1) Novelty(2) Originality(3) Logical completeness(4) InfluenceResearch strategy formation(1) Global issue(2) Social (domain) issue(3) Research program(4) Research project(5) Research subjectSynthetic research evaluationElemental evaluationCombination of elemental evaluation and inference(1) Basic concept① Unified treatment of research② Evaluation based on contract③ Cooperation of researcher and evaluator(2) AimViewpoint of research evaluationTop-downBottom-up(1) Progress axis(2) Depth axis(3) Phase axis① Extraction of research value② Evolution of research③ Source of motivation for researcher④ Accountability

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