ABSTRACT
The process of making S&T decisions is essentially the process in which all participants, under the restriction and regulation of specific external environment and guided by specific motives, use their resource and skill advantages to make judgment, tradeoff, negotiation and compromise about policy topics related with S&T development and eventually make decisions. Participants’ resource and skill advantages, motives and the external environment have substantial impacts on their influence on the decision-making process. Scientists’ resource advantages lie in their professional knowledge, their motive is to realize value objectives, and institution is the most important external environment that regulates their decision-making behaviors. Therefore, knowledge, value and institution are the key factors that decide scientists’ influence, and this study establishes the KIV analytical framework with knowledge, value and institution as the key variables.
