Abstract

This study was conducted to evaluate the contribution of the DOST Balik Scientist Program (BSP) awardees for the years 2017-2019 under different terms of engagement to the 6Ps Project Output. Using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), relative weights show that short-term (0.4669) is the most preferred term of engagement by BSP Awardees, followed by long-term and medium-term, respectively. Results also show that BSP awardees with Short-Term engagement focused more on People Services (0.1777), closely followed by Partnership (0.1333) and Publication and Patent/IP, respectively. For the Medium-Term engagement, the highest mark were People Services and Publication both at 0.0572, followed by Partnership (0.2500) and patent/IP (0.1786). While ranks for the Long-Term engagement show that publication of research output and/or books ranked first (0.0938), People Services and Partnership both at second (0.0833) followed by Patent/IP. For the engagements, granting of patents/IPs has the lowest rank among the alternative. Recommendations include, (1) conducting a country needs assessment every three years; (2) revising the existing BSP forms to clearly indicate specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timely (SMART) outputs; (3) setting a minimum target for each of the project output (alternatives); and (4) revising, expanding, or adopting another set of indicators for the project output; and (5) developing a comprehensive database for the Balik Scientists.