Evaluation Orientation of S&T Talents in China Based on Policy Text Analysis
[Purpose/significance]Talents are the most important resource for scientific and technological innovation.Under the cur-rent information environment,the research on the evaluation orientation of S&T talents will help guide the development of S&T talents,and provide reference suggestions and decision support for the management departments to optimize the evaluation of S&T talents.[Method/process]Using the research methods of grounded theory and the qualitative analysis software NVivo,a total of 203 policy documents related to S&T talents obtained from the official websites of Chinese governments at all levels in the past five years from 2017 to 2021 were analyzed.[Result/conclusion]The research results reveal the evaluation orientation of China's scientific and tech-nological talents in four aspects at the official level:personal ability,life experience,economic contribution and time and space con-straints,and further refine the five characteristics of highlighting classified evaluation,demand orientation,youth orientation,regional orientation and comprehensive development orientation.[Innovation/limitation]This paper innovatively uses the method of grounded theory to obtain the evaluation orientation of S&T talents in policy documents,which enriches relevant theories.A comparative study may be conducted from other data sources in the future.
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