Interaction between Science,  Technology and Innovation (STI) Indicators and the STI Policy Agenda

Interaction between Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Indicators and the STI Policy Agenda

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2010-09

Abstract

The presentation analyzes how STI Indicators may adversely affect policy, and articulates how African countries could be enabled to shape directions of change in the technologies they use. The statistics/indicators problem has involved a process of socio-institutional shaping of the statistical technology, with a reflexive movement which serves the interests of those same institutions. In terms of “developing countries” the technology transfer process was usually embedded in a specific type of national institutional context. The ‘real world’ of STI systems in developing countries was built to fit the imported models, maps and ‘blueprints’ created for statistical enumeration.

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IERI/UNU-MERIT Training Workshop Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria
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Keywords

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY, INDICATORS, STATISTICS, INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK, CAPACITY BUILDING, AFRICAN COUNTRIES, INNOVATION SYSTEMS, GLOBAL SOUTH, SOUTH OF SAHARA