초록 ▼

1. 서론
○ 최근 국내외적으로 기초연구에 대한 중요성이 지속적으로 증대
- 우리나라의 경우 2013년도 미래부의 기초연구진흥 종합계획(안)에 따르면 정부 R&D 중 기초연구 투자비중은 2008년 16.4%에서 2012년 32%로 증가 하였으며 2017년에 40%로 확대할 계획
○ 정부가 기초연구에 대한 지원 및 투자를 확대하고 있지만 기초연구현장(예컨대 국가과학기술심의회 산하 기초과학진흥협의회 주최 기초연구수행자들의 간담회, 타운미팅 등과 과학기술계 온라인 커뮤니티인 브릭)에서는 기초연구 지원에 대한 다양한 이슈

1. 서론
○ 최근 국내외적으로 기초연구에 대한 중요성이 지속적으로 증대
- 우리나라의 경우 2013년도 미래부의 기초연구진흥 종합계획(안)에 따르면 정부 R&D 중 기초연구 투자비중은 2008년 16.4%에서 2012년 32%로 증가 하였으며 2017년에 40%로 확대할 계획
○ 정부가 기초연구에 대한 지원 및 투자를 확대하고 있지만 기초연구현장(예컨대 국가과학기술심의회 산하 기초과학진흥협의회 주최 기초연구수행자들의 간담회, 타운미팅 등과 과학기술계 온라인 커뮤니티인 브릭)에서는 기초연구 지원에 대한 다양한 이슈들과 요구들이 제기되고 있어 우리나라도 선도형 R&D에 맞는 효과적이고 효율적인 기초연구 지원체제 구축이 긴요
○ 하지만 선도형 R&D 전환을 위한 국내 및 선진국 기초연구 지원 체계 비교ㆍ 분석을 통한 기초연구사업 지원체제 개선 방안 마련에 대한 기존연구는 미흡한 실정
- 또한 기초연구현장(주로 국내 대학교 교수 등 기초연구수행자들)에서 제기된 의견들을 합리적으로 수렴하여 정책에 반영하기 위한 설문조사 방법론을 적용한 연구도 미흡
○ 이와 같은 배경과 문제의식 하에 본 연구는 선도형 R&D 전환에 필요한 효과적ㆍ 효율적 기초연구사업 지원체제 구축 방안을 제시하는 것을 목표로 함

Abstract ▼

In Korea, basic research, which is the basis of indigenous innovation, has been increasingly important as the stage of Korea' technological development is from immitation to innovation. Subsequently, one hand, the Korean government has increasingly invested in domestic basic research (the portion of

In Korea, basic research, which is the basis of indigenous innovation, has been increasingly important as the stage of Korea' technological development is from immitation to innovation. Subsequently, one hand, the Korean government has increasingly invested in domestic basic research (the portion of basic research expenditure in total government R&D expenditure has been increased from 16.4% in 2008 to 32% 2012 and will be 40% in 2017 as the Korean government plan), the other hand, the Korean government has tried to advance the funding and supporting/administrative system for promoting domestic basic research in order to make domestic R&D innovative and creative. However, one side, although the investment of the Koran government in basic research has been rapidly increased (supply side), the other side, the domestic demand side of basic research has been complicated over time. For instance, in term of carrer, the junior researchers have been the middle class researchers and the middle class researchers have been senior researchers over time, then especially the baic research demand of the middle class researchers has been drastically increased but the Korean govement and NRF (National Research Fund like NSF in UAS) have not anticipated well this kind of phenomenon and because of the limitation of budgeting nature/character (i.e. the rapid increase of budgeting in an area is very difficult because the budgeting increase in an area is based on the budgeting amount of the previous year in that area and the average increase percentage of budget across other areas), the Korean government and NSF have not taken care of this demand well. In addition, the cost/price of research projects are various and different across the academic disciplines, but the Korean government and NSF have not taken care of this mattter well. That is, the funding and supprting system for basic reseach has been still old, while the investment of the Korean government in basic research has been rapidly increased. Hence, this study attempt to analyze this kind of mismatch of supply and demand in basic research in Korea and sugget the policy recommendations to resolve the mismatch. As research methodological approaches, the study, first, to collect and examine the opinions and issued raised in a lot of researcher in basic reseach filed, second, to discuss and examine these opinions and issues through several seminars of experts specialised in these matters, third, to analyze the facts and identify problems by examining the related literature, foruth, review and analyze the funding and supporting systems of basic research of the advanced countries such as USA and Japan to get implications and benchmarkings from them, fitth, to conduct the survey reseachers doing basic research by structural questionnaire to formulate the solutions for the mismatch problems. These approches, espeially, the first and second and fithe approch are very different from the research approaches of the related existing studies about the funding and supporting system for basic research in Korea. Based on the analytical results above, the study propose the policy recommendations in details, such as improving funding portfolios among junior researchers and middle class researchers and senior researchers as well as among academic disciplines, changing the funding structure and method (from existing program based regid funding to academic discipline based flexible funding), and eliminating negative effect of the funding/operation for IBS (Institute of Basic Science) on the funding for basic research programs. This study presents these policy recommendations and also the analytica data and evidences for governmental offices to design and practice the policies suggested by the study. Then, it is highly expected that this study can contribute a lot on the improvement of the funding and supporting system for public basic research in Korea.