![[20-23] Meta Evaluation on Long-term Strategies Science and Technology](/app/board/attach/image/thumb-2719-1624500243000.do)
To improve quality of life while achieving economic development, Korea has established and implemented various mid-to-long-term strategies in the science and technology field. However, policy problems such as a lack of coherence among the plans that are widely established by ministries, limitations to the consistency of policy contents, and a lack of measures that take the long-term perspective into account are expanding. Despite this situation, systematic review and analysis of the mid-to-long-term plan establishment and execution system in the science and technology field has been sluggish.
Against this background, we have attempted to explore the evolution patterns and institutional path dependences of the mid-to-long-term plans in the Korean science and technology field in terms of design and implementation practices. Based on our findings, we have tried to derive policy problems and policy implications. Accordingly, through a quantitative analysis based on text network analysis and a qualitative analysis based on focus group interviews, we were able to identify the following major policy problems in the mid-to-long-term plan establishment and execution system in Korea's science and technology field: 1) Limits of adaptation to future policy environment changes due to low autonomy, 2) Intensification of keyword discontinuity and limits to guaranteeing the continuity of strategies, 3) Limits in securing consistency between policies due to limitations in coordination between ministries and organizations, 4) Limits in securing plan validity due to restrictions on evidence-based policymaking, 5) Decreased effectiveness of individual plans due to poor linkage between policies. Based on these policy problems, this study proposes ten policy tasks to secure adaptability to future rapid environmental changes, and to improve the effectiveness of establishing and executing mid-to-long-term strategies in the science and technology field.
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