The empirical study of the agricultural R & D for technological innovations by the application of the so-called systems analysis approach was first of its kind of research efforts ever implemented in Korea if we researchers correctly understood. In th...
The empirical study of the agricultural R & D for technological innovations by the application of the so-called systems analysis approach was first of its kind of research efforts ever implemented in Korea if we researchers correctly understood. In the light of this fact and others, such as the constraints of research resources made available and found within our reach, this pioneering research study had to be a case study with the Crop Experiment station of the Office of Rural Development located in Suweon. The research results reported here were based on partial analyses though consisting of the essentially central and substantive ones. The research method employed by which the data and information for the research study were collected was the distributed questionnaires on which the respondents, the total enumeration of the research staff of the Station headquarters, were individually and personally requested to check appropriately. The total number of the questions contained in the printed questionnaire was more than one hundred and thirty,covering eight categories including that for the background information on the respondents.
A. Some of the more important findings of the research study than others within the manageable scope for this research report were as follows in a rigorously abstracted form:
1. With respect to the decision-making on the selection of research projects, it was revealed that thr researchers'participatory satisfaction was significantly high though they complained their superiors, within and outside, did influence the decision outcome.
2. It was found that the budget allocated for the research projecs finally selected was perceived as below the appropriate level professionally considered. Furthermore, the respondents made it clear that the implementation of the research projects was not made smoothly as it should be done, especially in the case of the budget execution.
3. The sample researchers for the agricultural production innovation determined that the