E-library for international reports on higher education

Innovation for Sustainable Development: Local Case Studies from Africa

It focuses on how innovative solutions have arisen at the local level to address sustainable development challenges in Africa.

Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) : Capacity Building for Sustainable Growth and Poverty Reduction

It summarizes STI capacity-building experience from developing and industrial countries as well as highlighting key issues for policy makers when addressing STI capacity building to alleviate poverty and to grow and diversify the economy.

African Telecommunication / ICT Indicators 2008 ....at a crossroads

Global Information Technology Report 2008

It assesses 127 economies on scores of factors ranging from the cost of mobile phone calls and available Internet bandwidth to the quality of higher education with the aim to determine which economies are best positioned to compete in the information-intensive 21st century economy.

E-readiness ranking 2008...Maintaining momentum

It presents a rival ranking from the Economist Intelligence Unit assessing the "e-readiness" of countries around the world how well economies have sustained their momentum from previous years.

Science and Technology Policies, National Competitiveness, and the Innovation Divide

The report comments on the existing methods of analysing national science and technology policies, and makes an assessment of the innovation strategies adopted by nations at varying stages of development.

Global Economic Prospects 2008: Technology Diffusion in the Developing World

Rapid technological progress in developing countries has helped to raise incomes and reduce the share of people living in absolute poverty from 29 percent in 1990 to 18 percent in 2004, says the World Bank##$$s Global Economic Prospects 2008.

Knowledge and Innovation for Regional Growth

Policy Recommendations Based on Good Practices.

Technology Management for globalizing firms

It outlines knowledge economy and explains where every executive needs to know, how (commercially useful) knowledge is generated, codified, protected, accessed, acquired, adopted and leveraged for competitive advantage.

Science and technology as a tool for socio-economic development in Islamic world

Socioeconomics or Socio-economics is the study of the relationship between economic activity and social life. The field is often considered multidisciplinary, using theories and methods from sociology, economics, history, psychology, and many others.

The Least Developed Countries Report 2007: Knowledge, Technology Learning and Innovation for Development

The world##$$s poorest nations must place more emphasis on using scientific knowledge and technological innovation if they wish to escape the poverty and growing unemployment they currently face.

Building science and technology capacity in Africa

It highlights problems facing science development in Africa and suggests ways to establish knowledge-based African society.

Developing science, technology and innovation indicators: what we can learn from the past

It indicates that last century science, technology and innovation indicators may well no longer be so relevant today and indeed may even be positively misleading.

Highway to freedom: science policy research in Africa

Osita Ogbu argues that to vanquish poverty, Africa needs a new cadre of policy researchers with expertise in the role of science and technology in development.

Empirical studies of innovation in the knowledge driven economy

It includes a collection of ten papers that study various aspects of innovation and knowledge management and their impact on performance at the firm level for a number of countries.

2005 Africa’s science and technology consolidation plan of action

It presents problem-solving approaches for developing science, technology and innovation in the African continent.

Creating the Capacity to Benefit from Technological Change in Developing Countries

Watu Wamae discusses ways to exploit and diffuse new knowledge to capitalise on challenges brought about by rapid technology-driven transformations and indicates that there is a tight link between high rates of technology acquisition and high investment ratios.

A Technology Acquisition Model: the role of learning and innovation

Watu Wamae indicates that developing economies can effectively engage in the process of knowledge accumulation and generation processes by establishing an absorptive capacity.

Are North-South Technological Spillovers Substantial?

Watu Wamae argues that actual technological spillovers are not substantial in developing countries because of low productivity effects of human capital coupled with weak or virtually inexistent system of innovation.

Priority area assessment on capacity building in science

It provides a strategic plan to overcome the widening gap between advancing scientific knowledge and technology and society’s ability to capture and use them.

Higher education and economic development in Africa

It presents the role of higher education in development and growth as well as its effect on building a knowledge-based economy.

UNESCO Science Report 2005

It analyses the development of science and technology around the world, with a wealth of data that is both quantitative and qualitative.

Transfer of scientific research result to the production sector….problems and issues

It provides an in-depth examination of the complex issues in the transfer of the scientific research results and suggests various measures to facilitate university-industry interaction process as well as Recommendations to governments, policy-makers, research and development institutions, industry and entrepreneurs.

First UNESCO report……. Toward knowledge societies

It indicates that only 11% of the population world has access to the internet and 90% of those connected live in industrialized countries.