TAN Hualin, WU Ang
The third party evaluation of scientific and technological achievements is a comprehensive evaluation of scientific and technological achievements by independent social institutions in accordance with certain laws and regulations, technical norms and so on. It makes up for the defects of the past scientific and technological achievements appraisal models and it is the future development direction of science and technology evaluation. At present, the third party evaluation of scientific and technological achievements in China is in its infancy with the system construction to be improved, and it faces many difficulties, such as low status, unclear subject, procedures lacking in standard, unscientific methods, unclear responsibility and so on. The third party evaluation system of scientific and technological achievements should be constructed and enhanced from the following aspects: To issue laws and regulations, to clarify subject qualification, to formulate technical standards, to standardize evaluation procedures, to clarify legal responsibility, and to establish supervision system, etc. By so doing, the due value will largely be produced.