Abstract
Scientific instrument platforms (SIPs) suffer from a lack of opinion and suggestions on sustainable operation management, leading to widely poor operation status nowadays. It is possible to guarantee the quality and efficiency of scientific and technological innovation activities and to improve the economic and social benefits of scientific and technological resources by constructing a framework system to promote the sustainability of the operation and management for SIPs. To meet the examination and evaluation requirements of the current operation and management of SIPs in China, this paper aims to establish an evaluation framework composed of indicators and attributes running through the construction and development of the SIPs from four aspects of learning and growth, process management, customers, and finance. Based on the existing research and operation practice, and according to the knowledge and preference of 627 SIP stakeholders, factor analysis has been adopted to extract and validate the hierarchical structure containing key sustainability indicators. The results show that the attribute characteristics of sustainable operating management for SIPs involve four significant dimensions of target positioning, team building, internal process control, and external service, among which the first and third ones have relatively higher priority. An effective and reliable evaluation tool is identified to be designed and provided for SIP operating management, which can also be used for self-evaluation and unified management of the sustainable operation of SIPs.
Highlights
The analytical results indicate that the priority of platform positioning and internal process control for a scientific instrument platforms (SIPs) is higher than that of team building and cooperative service, meaning that an agreement on platform positioning and internal control mechanism between different stakeholders is the premise for team building and external service
There are many factors involved in the operation and management of SIPs, of which this study has pointed out 20 attribute indicators by concentrating on Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) SIP operation in a recent period for the reference and discussion of decision-makers, practitioners, and scholars
This study attempts to reflect the relevant attributes of the actual operation and management of SIPs in China, but the research objects are only confined to the CAS, which is the best performer in constructing and operating SIPs
Summary
A SIP refers to a technological supporting and organizational sub-unit independently established by the scientific research institutes, universities, and colleges, and a few research enterprises, with a series of large-scale scientific instruments and equipment and a group of full-time scientific and technological personnel. SIPs usually operate and maintain the scientific instruments and equipment to devise new methods of inspection and testing, exploit new techniques for technological advances, and provide comprehensive services for innovation bodies such as principal investigators and general science and technology practitioners both inside and outside their management units. By 2020, the number of large-scale scientific instruments with an original value of not less than 500,000 Chinese Yuan in China has exceeded 101,000, involving more than 4000 management units [2]. A part of these institutions has built open and sharing platforms by concentrating the scientific and technical resources, making them
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