PMID- 17689310
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20071010
LR  - 20071115
IS  - 1873-7870 (Electronic)
IS  - 0149-7189 (Linking)
VI  - 30
IP  - 1
DP  - 2007 Feb
TI  - Structural equation model for the evaluation of national funding on R&D project 
      of SMEs in consideration with MBNQA criteria.
PG  - 10-20
AB  - Financial support on the R&D in Science & Technology for SMEs at the governmental 
      level plays a crucial role on the improvement of the national competitiveness. 
      Korea Science & Engineering Foundation (KOSEF) has supported the R&D projects of 
      SMEs with the competitive technology ability by way of the Science and Technology 
      Promotion Fund. In this paper, we propose a structural equation model (SEM) to 
      evaluate the performance of such a funding program in terms of three aspects: 
      output, outcome and impact under given funding inputs, R&D environment of a 
      recipient company, and external evaluation programs of funding organization. We 
      adopt Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) criteria to assess the R&D 
      environmental factors of recipient companies. In addition, we test the effect of 
      interim evaluation of the funded project. The proposed model is applied to the 
      real case and is used to identify the best practices as well as to provide 
      feedback information for the improvement of the government funding programs of 
      the R&D projects of SMEs.
FAU - Sohn, S Y
AU  - Sohn SY
AD  - Department of Information & Industrial Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, 
      Republic of Korea. sohns@yonsei.ac.kr
FAU - Gyu Joo, Yong
AU  - Gyu Joo Y
FAU - Kyu Han, Hong
AU  - Kyu Han H
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20061208
PL  - England
TA  - Eval Program Plann
JT  - Evaluation and program planning
JID - 7801727
SB  - IM
MH  - Commerce/economics
MH  - Engineering/*economics/methods
MH  - Financing, Government/standards/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Financing, Organized/*standards/statistics & numerical data
MH  - *Foundations
MH  - Humans
MH  - Korea
MH  - Models, Econometric
MH  - Program Evaluation/*methods
MH  - Research Support as Topic/organization & administration/*standards/statistics & 
      numerical data
MH  - Science/*economics/methods
MH  - Technology/*economics/methods
MH  - Total Quality Management
EDAT- 2007/08/11 09:00
MHDA- 2007/10/11 09:00
CRDT- 2007/08/11 09:00
PHST- 2007/08/11 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2007/10/11 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2007/08/11 09:00 [entrez]
AID - S0149-7189(06)00108-X [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2006.10.002 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Eval Program Plann. 2007 Feb;30(1):10-20. doi: 
      10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2006.10.002. Epub 2006 Dec 8.