2024 Volume 38 Issue 4 Pages 378-392
Evidence-based policy making (EBPM) in Science, technology and innovation policy is difficult because it takes a long time for the effects of the policy to appear, and the process is complex and related with various factors.
The EBPM is supported by various forms of policy-research institutes and programs from industry, academia, and government. In this paper the current status of EBPM is summarized according to each policy issue: fundamental statistics and surveys, frameworks and decision-making processes, indicators of research capabilities, research environment, research expenses and fundings, human resources development and international brain circulation, open science, private R&D and innovation, industry-academia-government collaboration, ventures and regional development, analysis of priority research areas and emerging research fields, and ELSI, STS and Science Communication.
Finally, I will discuss future issues from the perspectives of the relationship between policymakers and policy researchers, human resource development, and making theory and models.
