Science, Technology, Innovation, and Development in the Arab Countries

ISBN-13: 9780128125779 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 630 str.

Technology and Innovatio Omar (Consultant on Science Bizri

Recenzje

"The relation of innovation and development has been closely examined for countries such as New Zealand, Chile, Finland, Ireland, Slovenia and the East Asian tigers. However, until now little attention has been devoted to the Arab world. This volume is a welcome primer to science, technology, and innovation of 22 countries in the Middle East and North Africa. International organizations, policymakers, and scholars devoted to Arab development will find this to be a useful guide to the science and technology infrastructure of those countries." --Walter D. Valdivia, Mercatus Center, George Mason University

Spis treści

1. Introduction2. National STI Policies and Related Trends3. The Adoption and Utilization of Modern Technologies4. Alternative Paths towards STI Capacity Building5. Defining Economic Development Policies

O autorze

Omar F. Bizri is a Consultant on Science, Technology and Innovation for National Development. He is the ex-Chief of the Information and Communication Technology Division, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) and ex-Senior Adviser, Emerging and Conflict-Related Issues (ECRI) Division / Smart Community Initiative, (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN-ESCWA). He has extensive experience in the basic and applied sciences and has, over the past four decades, contributed to the formulation of regional and national science, technology, and innovation policy initiatives in several countries in the region. Since the outbreak of the Arab uprisings, he has been a keen observer of events with particular regard to the role that failures in technology adoption, dissemination, and implementation have had on socioeconomic development, on the one hand, and how certain technologies were instrumental in mobilizing and driving various factions in the region.