ABSTRACT

To measure policy progress, one key science, technology and innovation indicator has long captured the imagination of policy makers: gross domestic R&D expenditure as a proportion of the gross domestic product of a country. However, African development challenges inform new policy commitments to orient STI towards inclusive and sustainable development. Such dynamics led us to question how the prevailing STI measurement frameworks need to change. A starting point is to add a complementary measure: how can existing methods be used to assess and track the gross domestic R&D expenditure oriented to drive equitable and inclusive human development? The paper aims to design such a complementary indicator using existing national R&D datasets collected in line with the Frascati guidelines. We focus our experimentation in the South African context, with a view to generalising new measures to the sub-Saharan African context over the longer term.

摘要

为了衡量政策的进展，一项重要的科学，技术和创新指标长期以来一直吸引着决策者的想象：国内研发总支出占一个国家国内生产总值的比例。但是，非洲的发展挑战使新的政策承诺成为科学，技术和创新向包容性和可持续发展的承诺。这种动态使我们对现行的STI测量框架需要如何改变提出了质疑。一个起点是增加一项补充措施：如何使用现有方法评估和跟踪旨在推动公平和包容性人类发展的国内研发总支出？本文旨在使用根据弗拉斯卡蒂准则收集的现有国家研发数据集来设计这样的补充指标。