국가연구개발사업 기술료 징수 및 사용에 대한 개선방안 연구

A Study on the Improvement for Collection and Use of Royalty for National Research and Development

Since the first introduction of the Royalty for national research and development projects, the Royalty system has been consistently complemented and modified with regard to relevant issues according to social changes; therefore, it is obvious that the current engineering fees system has gone through much restructuring compared with its early form. Despite this fact, several improvements are required in terms of reports relevant to Royalty, the criteria for the collection of Royalty, priority in the use of Royalty, and compensation for researchers. The main issues for improvement include the following. First, it is necessary to reduce unnecessary administrative work power through a restructuring of the contents that need to be reported and the report period concerning Royalty as there has been a lack of unity between relevant departments. Second, the criteria for the collection of Royalty should be restructured in consideration of the real situation, thereby reflecting the market situation instead of depending on government subsidy. Third, as technical marketing and management expenses are increasing along with changes in social conditions for the generation of Royalty, a priority should be given to all costs related to the generation of Royalty instead of compensation to researchers. Fourth, the details of the regulation concerning the payment of compensation to researchers in for-profit organizations, which have been attributed to the improperly low compensation compared with the higher payment rate of compensation to researchers in non-profit organizations, should be restructured. Furthermore, there is a need for ameliorating of the situation in which student researchers may not be adequately rewarded owing to their personal situation, such as graduation, and for utilizing administrative work power efficiently by fixing the problem of the excessive amount of administrative work power by specifying an upper limit period for the management of compensation to researchers.