Science And Technology Indicators For Development - Hiroko Morita-Lou

Science And Technology Indicators For Development

Buch | Hardcover
207 Seiten
2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-28668-2 (ISBN)
168,35 inkl. MwSt
This book examines the issues involved in measuring the social impact of science and technology in developing countries, using indicators based on conditions and assumptions that are primarily relevant to developed countries.
The current indicators used to measure the impact of science and technology in developing countries have been formulated based on conditions and assumptions that are primarily relevant to developed countries. The contributors to this volume contend that these indicators, when applied to developing countries, often lead to inaccurate conclusions. An

Hiroko Morita-Lou is associate scientific affairs officer at the United Nations Centre for Science and Technology Development.

Also of Interest from Westview Press -- Foreword -- Preface -- Report on the Measurement of the Impact of Science and Technology on Development Objectives -- Overview -- Discussion Papers -- Indicators of Science and Technology for Development -- Science and Technology Indicators and Socio-economic Development -- Environment and Indicators of Technological Development: Methodological Considerations -- Intrinsic Indicators of Technological Development: Preliminary Outline of the Issues Involved -- Scientometric Measures for International Technology Inequitability and Its Field-by-Field Comparison -- Problems in the Use of Literature-based S&T Indicators in Developing Countries -- The Effects of Science and Technology on Development: Observations on Strategies for Research -- From Social Indicators to Science and Technology Indicators: What Can We Learn? -- An Assessment Scheme for Science and Technology for Comprehensive Development -- Problems Concerning Comparison of Economic, Scientific, and Technological Development Levels -- Conceptual and Methodological Problems in the Development of Science and Technology Indicators -- The Establishment of an S&T Indicator System in the People's Republic of China

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 237 mm
Gewicht 571 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-367-28668-8 / 0367286688
ISBN-13 978-0-367-28668-2 / 9780367286682
Zustand Neuware
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