A forum on ‘One-year Achievement and Development of Preliminary Feasibility Study (PFS) for R&D’ was held by KISTEP and the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) on March 22 (Mon) at the L tower to mark the 1st year of commissioning a PFS on national R&D programs.

A total of 43 cases has undergone the investigation in response to the scale-up of R&D programs and soaring demand over the past year since the R&D PFS was commissioned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MOEF) to the MSTI. There were practical improvements such that the period required for each R&D PFS was reduced by more than half, on average of about six months, through the reform of the system focusing on the speed of performing PFS and S&T subjected for PFS and the evaluation looked more into ‘scientific feasibility’ than ‘economic feasibility.’

[▲ Presentation on One-year Achievements and Performance of PFS for R&D]





[▲ Panel Discussion]
 

 

In this forum, there was a presentation on the current state of R&D PFS performance and its achievement for the one-year R&D PFS (Head of Team of R&D PFS Evaluation, MSIT), including the improvement of the system, and the reformation of the searching system. In addition, the R&D PFS scheme and its improvement plan to develop overall management were introduced. Panel discussion were led by Euijoon Yoon (Professor, Seoul National University) and Jiho Hwang (Director General, Office of R&D Budget and Feasibility Analysis, KISTEP) on the future direction of R&D PFS.

[▲ One-year Achievement and Development of Preliminary Feasibility Study (PFS) for R&D]