ปัจจัยที่ส่งผลต่อการใช้ประโยชน์จากงานวิจัยโดยหน่วยงานภาครัฐของไทย FACTORS INFLUENCING RESEARCH UTILIZATION BY THAI GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES
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Research Utilization, Policy Research, Governmental AgencyAbstract
This article reports the results from a study of factors influencing the utilization of research knowledge by Thai governmental agencies. The researcher had drafted the questionnaire based on the relevant literature reviewed. The draft questionnaires were tested with 30 sample government officials. Revised questionnaires were then sent by the postal mail to 3,529 sample governmental agencies with a cover letter requesting the senior management official or a person assigned by senior management official to fill in the questionnaire. The sample governmental agencies were derived from the stratified sampling process with governmental agencies divided into five groups including centralized governmental agencies, provincial governmental agencies, local governments, state-owned enterprises, and public organizations. The results from the OLS regression shows that factors that explain the increase in research utilization by governmental agencies include: (1) the interaction between governmental agencies and research community; (2) the effort made by researchers/research organizations to disseminate research results for policy utilization; and (3) the need of research knowledge by governmental agencies. It is also found that types of research, reputation of researchers/research organizations, and governmental agencies’ capacity to absorb research knowledge are less significant for research utilization. This article highlights, as a policy implication, the importance of establishing linkage mechanisms that can facilitate the interactions between the research organizations (e.g. universities, public and private research agencies, etc.) and governmental agencies and that can be served as a conduit to bring research into policies and practices at the national, regional, and local levels.
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