Came to public attention when then-president Lee Teng-hui adopted many of its proposals in the 1989 and 1995 constitutional reforms. Lee's appointment of INPR members such as Huang Chu-wen, Su Chin-chiang and Huang Hui-chen to key government posts also made it the private think tank from which the largest number of scholars have gone into politics.
因民國七十八年與八十四年兩次憲政改革中，建言獲得李登輝前總統大量採納而名噪一時，而國策研究院成員如黃主文、蘇進強、黃輝珍等人獲得李前總統重用，也成國內民間智庫中學者從政率頗高的一個智庫。