SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION POLICY 147页

UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT

CONTENTS
Preface........................iii
Acknowledgements...........iv
List of Abbreviations..........vi
Executive summary..........ix
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION TO THE STIP REVIEW..........1
1.1 Overview of Mauritania’s post-colonial development.......1
1.2 The STIP Review approach...................2
1.1 How the STIP Review is structured.................4
CHAPTER 2. OVERVIEW OF ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND STI PERFORMANCE........7
2.1 Economic growth and production structure.......................................7
2.2 Social indicators, demographics, employment and poverty............19
2.3 STI performance and the policy environment...............................................................22
CHAPTER 3. STI CAPABILITIES IN BUSINESS, HIGHER EDUCATION, TECHNICAL TRAINING AND RESEARCH......31
3.1 STI and enterprise productivity.....................................................................................31
3.2 Higher education and technical training.......................................................................36
3.3 Research and development..........................................................................................42
3.4 Access to international technology (inward international technology transfer)............52
3.5 Summary.......................................................................................................................58
CHAPTER 4. STI FRAMEWORK CONDITIONS AND INFRASTRUCTURE........................61
4.1 Enabling conditions for enterprise development...........................................................61
4.2 Regulatory regimes to promote innovation...................................................................70
4.3 Infrastructure.................................................................................................................72
4.4 Basic human capital......................................................................................................80
CHAPTER 5. SECTOR STUDY: STI IN MINING..................................................................87
5.1 The mining industry in Mauritania.................................................................................87
5.2 Mining technology.........................................................................................................88
5.3 Mining technology in Mauritania...................................................................................91
5.4 Education, training and research for the mining industry.............................................92
5.5 Mining firms in Mauritania.............................................................................................94
5.6 Intermediate organizations: PRISM..............................................................................98
5.7 Framework conditions for mining in the national system of innovation........................99
5.8 Summary and recommendations...............................................................................101
CHAPTER 6. SECTOR STUDY: STI IN OIL.......................................................................105
6.1 Oil in Mauritania.........................................................................................................105
6.2 Potential for the development of the local private sector...........................................107
6.3 Oil industry technology and the knowledge and skills needed to manage oil
resources...................................................................................................................111
6.4 Infrastructure constraints on oil industry development..............................................116
6.5 The legal and regulatory regime................................................................................116
6.6 Summary and recommendations...............................................................................117
CHAPTER 7. CONCLUSIONS AND POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS...............................119
References.......................................................................................127
Selected UNCTAD publications..........................................................................................................131