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Some ESTIME results for the MIRA screening meeting. Rigas Arvanitis. ESTIME Objectives. Description of the state-of-the-art in research in all scientific fields Design of indicators for policy making Participate in the debates on how to enhance research (evaluation, university, etc.)
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Some ESTIME results for the MIRA screening meeting Rigas Arvanitis IRD/Savoirs et Développement
ESTIME Objectives • Description of the state-of-the-art in research in all scientific fields • Design of indicators for policy making • Participate in the debates on how to enhance research (evaluation, university, etc.) • Promote “science studies” in Med countries IRD/Savoirs et Développement
ESTIME results on research • Growing production • A peculiar form of specialisation : Engineering and applaied physico-chemical sciences • Small but dynamic research communities • Institutional changes in some countries • Economic relevance is becoming a reality IRD/Savoirs et Développement
Growth pattern IRD/Savoirs et Développement
Social sciences production: Maghreb -- IRD/Savoirs et Développement
A marked specialization pattern 1/3 IRD/Savoirs et Développement
A marked specialization pattern 2/3 IRD/Savoirs et Développement
A marked specialization pattern 3/3 IRD/Savoirs et Développement
Research personnel IRD/Savoirs et Développement
Budgets for R&D as % of GDP IRD/Savoirs et Développement
A diversification of funding sources • Tunisia: relative diminishing funds and more international cooperation + RD in entreprises. • Morocco: More private sector (6% in 1998 12,3% en 2003). • Lebanon: diversification of funds at AUB (int. coop., foundations, NGOs, entreprises); public funding is lowing (in relative termes at IRAL). • Syria: creation of research funds in the universities. IRD/Savoirs et Développement
Low absorption capacity of national research systems • Important difference between promised budgets and implemented funds ( eg. In all countris where data was available) • Important differential between allocated funds and spent funds (in som ecases can go up 60%) • Some institutions have a low ability to respond to international funds. IRD/Savoirs et Développement
Three models of governance IRD/Savoirs et Développement
Some additional results (1) • Strong structuring of the research activity (eg. Tunisia, Morocco) • Active evolutions : Egypt • Evaluation (teams, programmes) is still not in the agenda • Social sciences out of the radar... But more than half of the students. IRD/Savoirs et Développement
Some additional results (2) • Growing R&D activity in enterprises • Bridging institutions are rare and have still a low activity /tech transfer units have low activity: legal issues. • Inventive policies in innovation (a world of innovation) • A suggestion: have more private consultancies in charge of relating the research-enterprises linkages. IRD/Savoirs et Développement
Some ideas for the future • Create a reference center for bibliometric data + effort on enhancing production visibility • Some coordination with research on innovation – EMIS • Additional work needed for both collection and analyzing data (partnerships + observatories) IRD/Savoirs et Développement
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