UNESCO Science Report 2010

De: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia : ruglucia@paho.org
para: EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org
fecha: 25 de enero de 2011 15:19
asunto: UNESCO Science Report 2010


UNESCO’s Science Report 2010

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Paris, France
UNESCO 2010

Available online PDF [ 541p.] at: http://bit.ly/dVuo1j


“….UNESCO Science Report 2010 analyses the trends and developments that have shaped scientific research, innovation and higher education over the past five years, including the impact of the current global economic recession, which has hit the Triad harder than either Brazil, China or India.

The report depicts an increasingly competitive environment, one in which the flow of information, knowledge, personnel and investment has become a two-way traffic. Both China and India, for instance, are using their newfound economic might to invest in high-tech companies in Europe and elsewhere to acquire technological expertise overnight. Other large emerging economies are also spending more on research and development than before, among them Brazil, Mexico, South Africa and Turkey.

If more countries are participating in science, we are also seeing a shift in global influence. China is a hair’s breadth away from counting more researchers than either the USA or the European Union, for instance, and now publishes more scientific articles than Japan.

Even countries with a lesser scientific capacity are finding that they can acquire, adopt and sometimes even transform existing technology and thereby ‘leapfrog’ over certain costly investments, such as infrastructure like land lines for telephones. Technological progress is allowing these countries to produce more knowledge and participate more actively than before in international networks and research partnerships with countries in both North and South.

This trend is fostering a democratization of science worldwide. In turn, science diplomacy is becoming a key instrument of peace-building and sustainable development in international relations. ….”


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Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
The growing role of knowledge in the global economy
United States of America
Canada
Latin America
Brazil
Cuba
The CARICOM countries
European Union
Southeast Europe
Turkey
Russian Federation
Central Asia
Arab States
Sub-Saharan Africa
South Asia
Iran
India
China
Japan
Republic of Korea
Southeast Asia and Oceania
Annexes
Statistical annex

Table 1 GERD as a percentage of GDP, 2000–2008
Table 2 GERD in purchasing power parity dollars, 2002 and 2007
Table 3 GERD by performing sector and source of funds, 2002 and 2007 (%)
Table 4 Total researchers and per million inhabitants, 2002 and 2007
Table 5 Scientific publications by country, 2000–2008
Table 6 Publications by major field of science, 2002 and 2008
Table 7 Scientific publications in international collaboration, 2002–2008
Table 8 International trade in high-tech products, 2002 and 2007

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