SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND
INNOVATION INDICATORS
The actual situation of scientific researches results and
the performing of indicators in Syria.
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1-Industrial sector:
generally the results of scientific researches are still little, and
non-existent effect on the competitive performance in Syria.
so the competitive industrial performance in Syria is 75/88 because
the Syrian industry depended on the workers who have low level of
education and used rapid technologies.
2-Educational sector:
According to the National’s report of the Human Development
announced that the scientific research suffers in the Syrian
universities from weakness in the institutions, functional
performance and the infrastructure that seems clearly in many
points such as :
1 - the continuous Bleeding in the existing teaching staff which is
distinct in excellent capacity it seems clearly through the departure
to other Arab universities.
2- the decrease in the percentage of who has the master and doctorate
degrees .
For example, In 2007, the statistics for journals Damascus University
as follows:
2007
Accepted researches
of teaching staff
Accepted researches of
students ( master or PhD)
14
17
12
179
Basic sciences series
19
22
Geometric sciences
series
20
30
Agriculture sciences
series
70
95
Humanity sciences
series
22
83
Economic sciences series
Medical sciences
series
Syrian universities suffer from absence the complementary
system for scientific research and the weakness in the
investment
The reasons for that are discussed in many articles and
several scientific forums , One of these reasons:
1) There is no separation between the teaching job and the
researching job of the professor in the faculty who
spends all his time in teaching process .
2) The weakness in the expenditure on the scientific
research.
3) The absence of the complementary relationship
between the Universities and the productive sectors of
public and private institutes and the participation of the
private sectors is so limited in financing of the scientific
research.
3-Innovation sector:
and the Syrian record in the field of patents is not empty, it
is back to year 1945 when Syria has awarded the first
patent for one of its citizens, but it has not policies to
encourage the innovation process.
Syria has acceded to the Intellectual Property international
Organization in 2004, it decided a national law which
executes the rules of the organization, and was acceded in
2003 to the international cooperation agreement for the
patents.
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percentage of patents are very
limited
according to the Syrian population and to
the international development
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the challenges which faced the Syrian inventor :
1-especially the limited number of scientists and
engineers who work in research and
development.
2- they haven’t enough facilities to innovate.
3- Universally the cost of registration in the patent
is expensive , although the international
organization reduced this cost about 75% for the
Underdeveloped countries and the remaining
percentage needs to support of his
government .
the number of innovations applications in the Syrian
Arab Republic (2003-2007)
106
116
73
87
89
62
89
53
32
71
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1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
The propositions of the Conference for Scientific
Research And Technical Development in
Damascus 2006:
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It decided the Percentage for expenditure on scientific
research will be 1% of the gross national product at the
end of year 2010 and 2% at the end of year 2020.
The average number of articles and books per year for
each researcher who has certificate in doctorate is equal
to 1
This Conference has decided the indicators
for monitoring the performance :
1-indicators of generation the science
2 - indicators of dissemination the science
3 - indicators of the local innovation
4- indicators of the intellectual property
5-Indicators of the Infrastructure
6-indicators of transferring the power
The Ministry of Communications and
Technology
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Ministry of Communications and Technology is seeking cooperation with the
Syrian Computer Society to develop informational reality in Syria, Where they
have established an a price for excellence and informatics innovation for the
last year 2008 and the goal of this prize is to spread IT among the younger
and explore the creativity of the citizen and support the knowledge economy.
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the ministry tries to implement the distinct projects to be real and to contribute
in the development of ICT sector
The achievements of
Central Bureau of Statistics
This conference decided to prepare and
implement a national survey for research
and development by cooperation with the
ministry of higher education and with the
Central Bureau of Statistics.
The Baasic Indicators:
1 - Human Resources of Researchers according to Academic
Certificates and the time which allocated for Research.
2-Development by the sectors.
3- The size of New products, and rates of the Patents .
4-Extraction the results of survey and the formulation of
conclusions and benefit from them in the appropriate
locations
5 – it suggested to establish a special fund to support scientific
research by deciding a percentage from company profits
is 1%
6 - working to create accurate db for the researchers and the
researches of universities
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Our Office has executed a survey about the information
technology which was the first time in Syria in 2007 and
the sampling which was taken according to the
household level and to the institutions
And the success rate of this survey was 15 % because it
needs the experience in management this kind of
surveys
So we wish to benefit from your experiences in this
sector and identify the most important indicators and
techniques which was used in this field to develop our
capabilities and implement a comprehensive survey to
have accurate results