To help African countries formulate policies for science development and promote knowledge-based socio-economic development, the first document mapping activities in science, technology and innovation in African countries has been launched.
Published as the first in a series, the 136-page document, African Innovation Outlook 2010, was prepared by the African Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators, or ASTII, project, and released by the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) planning and coordinating agency at an ASTII workshop held from 23-25 May in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
According to the executive summary, African Innovation Outlook is expected to generate debate and will improve collecting of better quality data as well as an understanding of policy processes in Africa. The mapping document covers 19 African countries and its six chapters deal with economic and human development challenges for STI; research and development activities; innovation; bibliometric analyses of scientific output; and recommendations for addressing the challenges identified. It also assessed the status of R&D in 2007 and 2008 including expenditure, type of research, qualifications of researchers and areas (experimental, applied or fundamental) where research is being done. ...
That report said R&D budgets should be increased to more than 1.6% of GDP, Asia's rate, and accompanied by effective measures to improve the quality and relevance of educational outcomes to the needs of the job market. Such an R&D budget increase would also help ease the brain drain, retaining skilled people needed for development who have not left Africa.The brain drain among African professionals is acute: for example, more than 40% of medical doctors trained in 25 African countries lived and practiced overseas in 2000. ...
To build the 21st century African developmental state, the economic report called for countries to promote innovation, technological adoption and entrepreneurship, as well as high value-added and employment-generating manufacturing. It pointed out the science sector was dominated by academics employed in government research institutes or public university laboratories. ...
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Published as the first in a series, the 136-page document, African Innovation Outlook 2010, was prepared by the African Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators, or ASTII, project, and released by the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) planning and coordinating agency at an ASTII workshop held from 23-25 May in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
According to the executive summary, African Innovation Outlook is expected to generate debate and will improve collecting of better quality data as well as an understanding of policy processes in Africa. The mapping document covers 19 African countries and its six chapters deal with economic and human development challenges for STI; research and development activities; innovation; bibliometric analyses of scientific output; and recommendations for addressing the challenges identified. It also assessed the status of R&D in 2007 and 2008 including expenditure, type of research, qualifications of researchers and areas (experimental, applied or fundamental) where research is being done. ...
That report said R&D budgets should be increased to more than 1.6% of GDP, Asia's rate, and accompanied by effective measures to improve the quality and relevance of educational outcomes to the needs of the job market. Such an R&D budget increase would also help ease the brain drain, retaining skilled people needed for development who have not left Africa.The brain drain among African professionals is acute: for example, more than 40% of medical doctors trained in 25 African countries lived and practiced overseas in 2000. ...
To build the 21st century African developmental state, the economic report called for countries to promote innovation, technological adoption and entrepreneurship, as well as high value-added and employment-generating manufacturing. It pointed out the science sector was dominated by academics employed in government research institutes or public university laboratories. ...
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