Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Nour, Samia Satti Osman Mohamed
Author-Email: samiasatti@yahoo.com
Author-Workplace-Name: Faculty of Economic and Social Studies,
	 Khartoum University, and UNU-MERIT
Title: Assessment of science and technology indicators in Sudan
Abstract: This paper employs both the descriptive and comparative approaches and 
	 uses the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's 
	 definition of Science and Technology (S&T) indicators (OECD, 1997) to 
	 discuss S&T development in Sudan. We find that the low level and the 
	 insufficient financial and human resources devoted to S&T development 
	 together with inadequate economic structures mean that Sudan lags behind 
	 the leading developing countries in terms of S&T input-output 
	 indicators. We find that the insufficient financial and human resources 
	 hampered the potential role of R&D to contribute toward economic 
	 development, adaptation to imported technologies and development of 
	 local technologies in Sudan.
Classification-JEL: O10, O11, O30
Keywords: S&T, R&D, Economic Development, Sudan, Developing Countries
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2010
Number: 062
File-URL: http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/wppdf/2010/wp2010-062.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2010062