# A System Dynamics Analysis of National R&D Performance Measurement System in Korea

## TL;DR

This paper uses system dynamics to analyze Korea's R&D performance measurement system, highlighting how evaluation fairness, peer pool size, and evaluation period influence overall R&D quality.

## Contribution

It models the Korean R&D evaluation system to identify key factors affecting performance quality and suggests policy changes to improve fairness and evaluation outcomes.

## Key findings

- Increasing peer pool size enhances evaluation fairness.
- Shortening evaluation periods impacts workload and innovation.
- Policy adjustments can improve R&D performance quality.

## Abstract

Peer review is one of useful and powerful performance measurement process. In Korea, it needs to increase quality of R&D performance, but bibliometric evaluation and lack of peers have opposite effect. We used system dynamics to describe Korean R&D performance measurement system and ways to increase performance quality. To meet a desired R&D performance quality, increasing fairness and quality of evaluation is needed. Size of peer pool decreased because of the specialization of R&D projects and the Sangpi process both, and it is critical to acquire both fairness and quality. Also, shortening evaluation period affect to R&D performance quality, by causing workloads increase, limiting long-term and innovative R&D projects, and decreasing evaluation quality. Previous evaluation policies do a role like micro-controlling the R&D's activities, but increasing the size of peer pool and changing evaluation period would make a change to quality and fairness of evaluation.