NST supports and promotes 25 government-funded research institutes in the fields of science and technology.
To promote drawing excellent research achievements by inducing innovation in management systems and continuous research of member GRIs
Institution of the ‘mission-oriented evaluation’ system linked with the term cycles of institute heads on the basis of own duties for
strengthening the autonomy and responsibility of GRIs → Since the second half of 2013, sequential application of the new evaluation system
and implementation of ‘common standard-type evaluation’ for institutes that have not been applied the new evaluation system
Reflection of evaluation results in the funds and manpower of institutes and the performance incentives for institute heads, and the limit rate of
efficiency incentives for researchers