Monday, July 4, 2016

Fwd: UNESCO Science Report: Towards 2030 | A world report mapping Science, Technology and Innovation

UNESCO Science Report: Towards 2030
by UNESCO. United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization, Paris, ISBN: 9789231001291.

Summary: The UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030 provides more country-level information than ever before. The trends and developments in science, technology and innovation policy and governance between 2009 and mid-2015 described here provide essential baseline information on the concerns and priorities of countries that should orient the implementation and drive the assessment of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the years to come.
There are fewer grounds today than in the past to deplore a North-South divide in research and innovation. This is one of the key findings of the UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030 launched on 10 November 2015.  For two decades now, the UNESCO Science Report series has been mapping science, technology and innovation (STI) around the world on a regular basis. Since STI do not evolve in a vacuum, this latest edition summarizes the evolution since 2010 against the backdrop of socio-economic, geopolitical and environmental trends that have helped to shape contemporary STI policy and governance.  Written by about 50 experts who are each covering the country or region from which they hail, the UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030 provides more country-level information than ever before. The trends and developments in science, technology and innovation policy and governance between 2009 and mid-2015 described here provide essential baseline information on the concerns and priorities of countries that should orient the implementation and drive the assessment of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the years to come.

Table of Contents
Foreword |
Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO
Perspectives on Emerging Issues
  • Universities: increasingly global players | Patrick Aebischer, President, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
  • A more developmental approach to science | Bhanu Neupane, Programme Specialist, Communication Sector, UNESCO
  • Science will play a key role in realizing Agenda 2030 | Opinion piece based on a policy brief prepared by the Scientific Advisory Board of the Secretary-General of the United Nations
  • Science for a sustainable and just world: a new framework for global science policy? | Heide Hackmann, International Council for Science and Geoffrey Boulton, University of Edinburgh
  • Local and indigenous knowledge at the science–policy interface | Douglas Nakashima, Head, Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems programme, UNESCO
Global Overview
  • A world in search of an effective growth strategy | Luc Soete, Susan Schneegans, Deniz Eröcal, Baskaran Angathevar and Rajah Rasiah
  • Tracking trends in innovation and mobility | Elvis Korku Avenyo, Chiao-Ling Chien, Hugo Hollanders, Luciana Marins, Martin Schaaper and Bart Verspagen
  • Is the gender gap narrowing in science and engineering? | Sophia Huyer
A closer look at BRICS Countries
  • Brazil | Renato Hyuda de Luna Pedrosa and Hernan Chaimovich
  • Russian Federation | Leonid Gokhberg and Tatiana Kuznetsova
  • India | Sunil Mani
  • China | Cong Cao
  • East and Central Africa | Kevin Urama, Mammo Muchie and Remy Twiringiyimana
  • Latin America | Guillermo A. Lemarchand
  • South Asia | Dilupa Nakandala and Ammar Malik


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