Science and Technology Policy for Development

Dialogues at the Interface

Edited by Louk de la Rive Box, Rutger Engelhard

Publication date:

01 May 2006

Publisher

Anthem Press

Dimensions:

234x155mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781843312277

This book is about changing social relationships. The authors focus on the question of what social relations make for successful science and technology policies. In particular, the various chapters illustrate what happens at different social interfaces, such as between policy makers and researchers, and between the users and producers of knowledge. In other words, they are interested in the knowledge networks that are emerging between the many different actors involved in the development of science and technology.

Acknowledgements; Acronyms; Preface; Foreword; Dialogues at the Interface: an Introduction; Visions from the South: Knowledge Dependence and Its Discontents: The Demand for Policy Research in Africa in the era of Globalization; Regionalism and Science and Technology Development in Africa; Building a Critical Mass of Researchers in the Least Developed Countries: New Challenges; Epistemic Communities and Informed Policy Making for Promoting Innovations: The Case of Singapore; Science for Transformations: Research Agendas and Priorities in South Africa; Networking Knowledge: Science and Technology Policies Through Policy Dialogue; From Development Research to Pro-Poor Policy: Evidence and the Change Process; Priority Setting in Research for Development: A Donor's Perspective; International Collaboration in Science and Technology: Promises and Pitfalls; Priority Setting in Technical Cooperation: Expanding the Demand for Knowledge-Based Development; The Use of Foresight in Setting Agricultural Research Priorities; Development of Sustainable Control of Diamondback Moth in Cabbage and Cauliflower by Public-Private Partnership; Coda: The Emerging Contextual Space for Priority Setting in Development Research; Workshop Participants

'Box and Engelhard have pulled off a feat in their introduction in bringing the lessons of a very diverse set of papers written from very different standpoints into an unusually coherent intellectual framework.' —Richard Manning (writing in a personal capacity), Chair of the Development Assistance Committee of the OECD