TFL Vsebine / Revija Javna uprava

Zoisova štipendija temelji na ideji, da je s strani države potrebno identificirati (in finančno podpirati) nadarjene posameznike, t.j. tiste, za katere velja velika verjetnost, da bodo v prihodnje zaradi svojih izjemnih lastnosti nadpovprečno veliko prispevali k gospodarskemu, družbenemu, znanstveno-tehnološkemu in kulturnemu razvoju države. Kljub več kot 25-letnemu kontinuiranemu dodeljevanju Zoisove štipendije in številnim debatam v javnosti o učinkovitosti le-tega, do sedaj nihče ni raziskal ekonomske smiselnosti investicije države za ta namen, niti se niso sistematično spremljali podatki o učinkih štipendije oz. ni bila izdelana nobena (celovita) longitudialna raziskava populacije štipendistov. Ta članek tako predstavlja prvo analizo ekonomske učinkovitosti pravne ureditve Zoisove štipendije v več kot 25 letih njenega obstoja.

Zois's scholarship is based on the idea that the State needs to identify (and financially support) talented students, since there exists, due to their exceptional talents, great probability of their future above-average contribution to economic, social, scientific, technological and cultural progress of the State. Despite more than 25 years of continuous investment of the State in the scholarship as well as many public debates about economic justification of such investment, until now, no research has been conducted in this field. Moreover, nobody is systematically collecting data about the impact of the scholarship on students and no longitudinal research of population of recipients of Zois’s scholarship has ever been done. Consequently, this article represents the first economic analysis of legal regulation of the scholarship in 25 years of its existence.