This publication is a comprehensive report on the government allocations and expenditure and performance of S&T in the public sector. The report is published annually. The science and technology activities covered include research and development, training, education and information; technology transfer and technical services (including information and advice)
Conclusion by the Minister for Commerce, Science and Technology, Pat Rabbitte TD. Taking all of the foregoing into account, this White Paper is something of a hybrid. It is a White Paper with, at times, a tint of green to it. It engages in and sets out a discussion agenda, as well as a definite programme of actions by the Government, following on from the TIERNEY Report and the work of the Task Force established last year to advise the Government on the prioritisation of STIAC recommendations. In Part One of the White Paper the reader will have found a broad philosophical discussion of the rationale for what we are doing. One critical feature of what we are doing is strongly and overtly linking S&T to innovation and also placing it in the context of national development. S&T will be evaluated by its ability to contribute to wider national goals, as a means to achieving them rather than as an end in itself. In Part Two, the reader will have found some discourse and agendae for the future on particular topics such as the role of education, awareness of S&T and national S&T strategy and structures. A White Paper normally marks the end of discussion. However, in the S&T arena, we need continuous public debate to raise and improve its profile, to establish investment priorities and to ensure that the country derives maximum benefit from that investment. Since taking up the science portfolio in Government I have discovered that scientists are good at communicating with each other. But that internal discourse is conducted in the dense language of the learned journal and the scientific paper. Scientists are, I have learned however, less practised in communicating with the wider society and mostly feel themselves under little if any obligation to do so. As science becomes central to all of our lives, I suggest that they must. The worst thing that could happen, following publication of the White Paper, is that the debate will fizzle out. Government has played its part by first instigating the STIAC process and now producing this White Paper. But governments cannot be expected to both lead the debate and provide the response. It is very much the responsibility of all of the S&T community to generate discussion on policy and practical concerns and to demonstrate their relevance to the issues of the day. Visibility, followed by responsibility and accountability, is the way forward.
This report provides details of expenditure by nine Government Departments and 34 separate agencies. It represents the most detailed and comprehensive picture of spending on S&T available in Ireland and shows trends in S&T spending going back over eight years
In some countries in Europe, Foresight, as a organised process or collective consultation on plausible future developments, has been recently used as a main framework for science and technology policy co-ordination; although in Spain, even though the government is a central player in the national innovation system (NIS) and in the research and technological development (RTD) activities, neither a highly systematic or formalised use of technology foresight has occurred and remains a marginal aspect or a minor dimension for its national RTD policy planning. However, this does not indicate that in Spain, foresight has been ignored. On the contrary, foresight and evaluation for Spanish S&T were considered very important for the government action in S&T policy planning in mid-1980s and an administrative locus in government for both activities were institutionalised; but Foresight in Spain had not gained the centrality in S&T policy planning as it appears to have happened in other countries, and had been keep as a tool for producing information (reports) on the future developments at sectoral level. Under the umbrella of Prospectiva Tecnológica, a word that in Spanish has strong proximity with French concept Prospective[1] associated to planning activities, we can identify many different types of activities carried out in a very discontinues way. Also, the understanding of Prospectiva has been much more associated to the idea of producing information on the future trends and tendencies, scientific or technological, than to the idea of developing a systematic process of interaction between innovation actors to help their co-ordination in the context of national innovation systems. In this pages we will try to describe the first attempts to bring foresight into the policy agenda contextualized within the formulation of the Spanish RTD policy. We will also discuss how the forms foresight taken have been punctual and discontinuous, and how they have not matured into a process of considering the future in a systematic manner as a part of a collective action. We will try to elaborate on the variables that could explain why in Spain, Foresight as a tool has not shaped S&T co-ordination policy (in addition to its effects on legitimisation), as in some other countries. ; This paper is part of a TSER project, "Foresight as tool for managing the innovation and the flows of knowledge", funded by the EU.
This publication is a comprehensive report on the government allocations and expenditure and performance of S&T and R&D in the public sector. The report is published annually. The science and technology activities covered include research and development, training, education and information; technology transfer and technical services (including information and advice)
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur-721 302 Manuscript received 19 May 1994, revised 7 June 1996, accepted 16 June 1997 The present status of science and technology education and research in universities and other higher academic institutions has been critically analyzed. Various aspects of teaching in graduate and post-graduate levels, such as course curricula, laboratory infrastructure, library facility, use of modern teaching aids, examination systems, administrative problems, budget cut, selection, recruitment and promotion of faculty members and staff have been discussed. Industry-academy interaction, government aid for development of science, technology and industry, manpower training and research in academic institutions have been reviewed. Finally, some suggestions have been made.
This report presents the most detailed and comprehensive picture of spending on science and technology in Ireland and shows trends in S&T spending over ten years. Volume 1 provides details of expenditure on science and technology by nine Government Departments and 31 separate agencies. Volume 2 shows how much of this expenditure was devoted to research and development.
Second ed. of: New thinking and American defence technology / [prepared by Ashton B. Carter and William J. Perry]. ; "May 1993." ; Mode of access: Internet.
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the U.S. government's international science and technology (S&T) agreements that support and encourage international cooperation in research and development, focusing on the: (1) number of international S&T agreements active during fiscal year (FY) 1997; and (2) number of these agreements that resulted in research projects or other activities."
