Abstract: Outcome management plays a critical role in the middle and later stage of project management. By gathering up the outcomes of funded projects, the research achievements and funding effect of funded projects are unveiled to the scientific and technological circles and the public. Besides, outcome management of funded projects contributes to sharing the outcomes with society and their conversion. Generally, the outcomes of fundamental research are not directly applied to society and of no practical application value. Nevertheless, they feature original innovation, which can be the base of further research and makes the outcomes a component of the integrated application to provide related knowledge for applied research. Moreover, outcome management of funded projects is good for discovering disciplines′ growth points and optimizing discipline arrangement.
By years of management practice, Guangdong Province Natural Science Foundation has built a relatively complete management system in project application, review, approval, etc. In contrast, outcome management, which is carried out in the middle and later stage, remains a huge weakness. There are too many result analyses and management work summaries and inadequate systematical and constant collections, analyses, and presentations of outcomes. Moreover, project research achievement data was not fully extracted, achievements were not manifested enough, and there was a lack of crucial feedback of comments and advice for improvement, which led to vagueness in the effect of funded projects and didn′t reflect the integration profit of outcomes as well. 
Currently, the National Natural Science Foundation has the most integrated project outcome management system which includes special management system, annual report and service sharing website. In comparison, there′s a universal lack of special systems or regulations on outcome management of provincial and municipal natural science foundations throughout China, while related regulations for outcome management are generally listed in the documents of provincial and municipal natural science foundation management methods.
In this paper, based on the analysis of current situation of outcome management of projects funded by Guangdong Province Natural Science Foundation and practical management situation of the foundation, main issues of the outcome management of projects funded by the foundation is pointedly analyzed to work out new ideas in the mode of outcome management of funded projects, including developing outcome management measures for the projects funded by Guangdong Province Natural Science Foundation, and to provide institutional basis for realizing science-based, legal, and efficient outcome management of funded projects; the outcome management system is perfected in aspect of outcome evaluation, statistical analysis of outcomes deep in the system, and outcome gathering; based on outcome data collection, outcome analysis framework is established, and the type, structure, effect and conversion result of the projects funded by Guangdong Province Natural Science Foundation are analyzed by means of statistical methods and professional statistical tools to pave the way for performance evaluation and achievement sharing of Guangdong Province Natural Science Foundation.

Key words: science and technology project results management, Guangdong Natural Science Foundation, management innovation