The 2009 version of “El estado de la ciencia. Principales indicadores de ciencia y tecnología” is already available. The main purpose of this publication is to provide, in an agile and dynamic fashion, a set of useful tools for analyzing the problems of science, technology and innovation in our region. The volume includes a CD containing not only the materials published in the printed version, but also a list that summarizes the key aspects of the institutional frames of science and technology of all the countries that are RICYT members.
Now available: updated science and technology indicators
RICYT's science and technology indicators for Ibero-America and the Caribbean have been updated and are now available. The new information contains data from 1990 through 2007 and includes several classifications, such as: information per country, comparative indicators on financial resources, human resources, publications and patents.
Coming soon: international workshop on innovation indicators
This workshop's main objective is to study all we know about the state of innovation indicators in Latin America and both its actual and potential use as a political resource. Almost a decade ago, RICYT developed and published the Bogotá Manual (RICYT/COLCIENCIAS, 2000), which still acts as a guide to the different situations that our countries have to encounter while measuring innovation. The Bogotá Manual was structured around three questions: Why do we measure innovative processes? What do we measure? How do we do it? Nowadays, we feel in need of adding a new question: after retrieving the information, how can we use it to design and evaluate public policies?
The workshop will take place in Montevideo, Uruguay, during September 17 and 18. The organization of the seminar is being handled by the Investigation and Innovation National Agency of Uruguay (ANII) and the Network on Science and Technology Indicators (RICYT), with the sponsorship of the Ibero-American Observatory of Science, Technology and Society (OCTS-OEI), the Agencia Española de la Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID) and the Centro Internacional de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo (IDRC), plus the support of the Comisión Económica para América Latina (CEPAL) and the Ibero-American Development Bank (BID).
The 2009 version of the Lisbon Manual is already available. The original edition goes back to 2006. Since then, its contents have gone through a vast series of changes. The transition to the Knowledge Society, as said on the Manual's back cover, “is a phenomenon defined by change”. Every change demands revisions, corrections, actualizations. That is the purpose of the 2009 version, the result of the joint efforts of the Ibero-American and Inter-American Network on Science and Technology Indicators (RICYT), the Portuguese Ministry of Education, the Ibero-American Observatory of Science, Technology and Society and the Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID).
The 2009 version aims at providing an even better and more complete understatement of the existing data concerning the Information Society. Not only has the 2006 information been refreshed, but it also adds new dimensions of analysis that have been found utterly relevant for the Ibero-American region in this past three years: universal connectivity, the education and the participation of users in the creative process related to new technologies. The basic draft for the annex and the actualization of the original chapters were discussed during the IV Ibero-American Seminar on Knowledge Society Indicators that took place in Portugal in September of 2009.
The central axis of the “Third Ibero-American Workshop of Information Society” was the presentation of a new draft: “ Lisbon Manual. Guidelines for the interpretation of statistic data and the generation of indicators related to the Ibero-American transition to the Information Society” , which was a straight result of the advances made since the first workshop. It was published in 2006 with the objective of becoming a tool for the analysis of different existent measurements and methodologies connected with Information Society studies and other more developed regions. The Ibero-American perspective can actually be considered its strongest value, since an indistinct perspective would have guided the analysis towards erroneous and redundant conclusions.
The 2008 version of “El estado de la ciencia. Principales indicadores de ciencia y tecnología” is already available. The main purpose of this publication is to provide, in an agile and dynamic fashion, a set of useful tools for analyzing the problems of science, technology and innovation in our region. The volume includes a CD containing not only the materials published in the printed version, but also a list that summarizes the key aspects of the institutional frames of science and technology of all the countries that are RICYT members. “El estado de la ciencia” also includes two special reports devoted to the current status of nanotechnology and innovation in Latin America.
NOW AVAILABLE: “Indicadores de ciencia y tecnología en Iberoamérica. Agenda 2008”
The book “Indicadores de ciencia y tecnología en Iberoamérica. Agenda 2008” is already available. This volume includes the most important presentations made by experts during the VII Congress on Science and Technology Indicators that took place in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on May 2007.
The purpose of this publication —edited by Mario Albornoz, Carlos Vogt and Claudio Alfaraz— is to broaden the debate on the most relevant topics related to science, technology and innovation indicators in Latin America. The book also includes a CD-ROM in which the user will find all the presentations that took place in Sao Paulo.
Around five hundred experts of thirty different countries reunited in Sao Paulo to participate in the VII Congress on Science and Technology Indicators . The experts were representatives of major agencies associated with the production of information in science and technology. The meeting, organized by the RICYT and Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP), was also supported by CYTED, UNESCO and the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimiento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq).
VII Ibero-American Congress of Science and Technology Indicators
The Ibero-American Network of Science and Technology Indicators (RICYT), jointly with the State of São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), call national institutions of science and technology, organizations in this area, professionals and researchers to participate in the VII Ibero-American Congress of Science and Technology Indicators, to be hold in São Paulo, May 23, 24 and 25, 2007.
The congress will bring together the major regional and international experts in the field of science, technology and innovation indicators. It is intended to promote the reflection about requirements of science and technology information, as well as new indicators needed to fulfill them.
One of the congress’ goals is to be the place for reflecting about specificities and necessities of science and technology information in the region’s countries, taking into account, as well, the major world trends in this area. By this way, ultimately, it is intended to bring a space for contributions that allow a better formulation of science, technology and innovation policies in Ibero-America.
The Santiago Manual, a product elaborated by the science internationalization department, one of RICYT's inner networks, is already available.
This publication aims at measuring and describing the intensity and characteristics of the science internationalization in Ibero-America, not only at a national but also within the boundaries of institutions and organisms that work in investigation and technological development (R&D).
In this way, the Santiago Manual, a RICYT project supported by the CYTED Program, enlarges the indicators system of R&D in Ibero-American countries.
The digital version of the “The State of Science” is available
The digital version of the “The State of Science” article, included in RICYTs annual report.
Building on the available indicators, it presents a regional overview and considerations oriented to the analysis of the scientific and technological reality of Latin-American and Caribbean countries.
Building on the success of the 2004 seminar is beeing organised the
"Second International Seville Seminar on Future-Oriented Technology Analysis (FTA)",wich will take place
on Sevilla, Spain on 28 th - 29 th September 2006
This second event is oriented to the sharing of ideas and experiences among FTA experts, practitioners, and decision-makers.
The 2006 Seminar will focus upon the “ impact of FTA approaches on policy and decision-making ” and will place emphasis on the delivery of concrete and valued policy outcomes and impacts from FTA activities.
In order to give a broader diffusion to the analysis of the Ibero – American scientific and technological situation, we offer an English version of “The State of Science”, the report included in RICYT last annual publication “El Estado de la Ciencia. Principales Indicadores de Ciencia y Tecnología Iberoamericanos / InterAmericanos 2004". Download document
RICYT presents a new edition of the annual publication “El
Estado de la Ciencia” including the main Science and
Technology Indicators - 2004, where is analyzed the science and technology
situation in the region.
As in previous editions the book contains different articles analyzing the state
of the art in the field of the scientific and technology measurement of the
region and also it presents new indicators.
II International Seminary on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators
The “II International Seminary on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators” took place in Santiago de Chile on January 16th - 18th, and it was devoted to scientometric indicators and the possibilities offered by the new informatics technologies.
The meeting was organized by KAWAX – Chilean Science, Technology and Innovation Observatory – and was sponsored by RICYT. It counted with the attendance of highlighted Latin-American and European experts.
The central axis of the “Third Iberoamerican Workshop of Information Society”
was the presentation of the draft of the “Lisbon Manual. Guidelines for the interpretation of the statistic data avaible and the construction of indicators referred to the Iberoamerican transition to the Information Society” , as result of the advances made since the first workshop. This Manual was created to be a tool for the analysis of the different measures and methodologies existents. Its main objective is to give to the statistics data users a best comprension of the information throw the combination and complementation of different advances that have been happen in measuring area called Information Society.
Knowledge networks as a new way of collaborative creation seminary: its construction, dynamic and management
Whit great success finalised the “Knowledge networks as a new way of collaborative creation seminary: its construction, dynamic and management” organized by the Network on Science and Technology Indicators IberoAmerican and InterAmerican (RICYT) of the “IberoAmerican Science and Technology program for Development” (CYTED) y UNESCO – Regional Office of Science for Latin America and Caribbean-.
In the meeting, wich take place in Buenos Aires on November 24 and 25, participated around 150 people, including representators of all the region and Internationals Institutions specialists.
The Iberoamerican Web of Science and Technology Indicators (RICYT) celebrates its 10th anniversary (April, 28 1995- April, 28 2005)
Since its birth, the area in charge of the Web coordination, thanks to all the people who contributed to reach our purposes: “promote instruments development for the measurement and analysis of science and technology in Iberoamerica, in an international framework of cooperation, with the aim of deepening its knowledge and use it as policy instrument for decision making”.
Scientific production of dates in international data bases
Availability to updated data till the year 2003 referred to the scientific production is registered in bibliographic databases of international coverage. The information was done by the RICYT coordination based on searching strategies developed together with the Scientific Information and Documentation Center (CINDOC) of Spain and through the services provided by Dialog Corp in Argentina. The new data belong to the following data bases:
Science Citation Index (SCI Search) , Pascal , INSPEC, Compendex, Chemical Abstracts, Biosis, Medline, Cab Internacional.
Annual Survey of science and technology indicators.
The Iberoamerican- Interamerican Web of Science and Technology Indicators (RICYT) has initiated an annual survey of science and technology indicators of the country members. The information revealed will be useful to elaborate the new edition of the report “The Science State. Main Iberoamerican- Interamerican Indicators of Science and Technology.
The information collected by RICYT will be shared withe Unesco Statistic Institute (IEU) due to an agreement of mutual cooperation on science and technology indicators, in order to avoid unnecessary duplications in ONCYTs tasks. The deadline for the reception of the data will be 15, April 2005.
Third Iberoamerican Workshop of Information Society Indicators
The Third Iberoamerican Workshop of Information Society Indicators will be carried out on September 29 and 30, 2005. This meeting has the aim of making a specific progress to the “Lisboa Manual- Guidebook for the information society statistic indicators production”. The Lisboa Manual pretends to be turned into an orientating document for the indicators production, elaborated from the “Matrix of Information Society Indicators”. The most relevant institutions, indicators and actually existing observation methologies inside the information society will be released to enrich the manual.
This survey will let analyze not only the potentials but the indicators boundaries/ limits and the variables in usage too and the main technical and institutional obstacles as well, which is necessary to improve the measurements.
The workshop is organized by the RICYT and the Superior Institute of Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE) of Portugal, with the support of UMIC- Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento of Potugal, the Observatório da Ciência e do Ensino Superior (OCES) of Portugal and the National Institute of Statistics (INE) of Portugal.
The Third Iberoamerican Workshop of Information Society Indicators goes on with the series initiated in Lisboa in 2001 and 2003. Under the topic “Indicators for the Information Society: benchmarking and good practices”, the objective of this meeting is the creation of places for information exchange about information society indicators production. In that way, experts from outstanding institutions such as the REDES Center, CEPAL, REULATEL/ ICA, OCDE, Eurostat, ONU- ORBICOM, UNESCO and OCES, UMIC and ISCTE from Portugal, will be invited to display their work. This event will also be attended by researchers or members of different institutions and programmes interested in the movement towards the information society, which will make comments in reference to the showed information.
The result of the first meeting of the Andean sub region which was carried out on December 3, 2004 in Quito, Ecuador, lead to the creation of the Sub regional Andean Web, which coordination will be in charge of Carmen Echeverría of FUNDACYT, Ecuador, during 2005.
Participants of the following national science and technology institutions took part in the meeting: Erick Meave, CONACYT (Bolivia), Sandra Daza, OCyT (Colombia), Carmen Echeverría, FUNDACYT (Ecuador), Benjamín Marticorena, CONCYTEC (Perú) and Grisel Romero, MCT (Venezuela).
Objectives: 1- prepare a plan of group activities in science, technology and innovation indicators subject and, 2- name the coordinator of the Andean sub region in 2005.
The next items had been defined as activities to be developed in 2005:
• Homogenize concepts: prepare a theorical and conceptual synopsis which constitutes a common database for the countries of the sub region.
• Basic Indicators Production: Systematize the information set out by each country. Improve the activities and help other countries which are starting to do them, as in the case of Bolivia. One of the instruments will be the training and technical support.
• New indicators: aimed to indicators development of social perception and knowledge appropriation. The proposal will be presented in common projects.
• Strategic points: prime interest for the sub region. The developement of indicators which reply the necessity of technology and innovative information required by Pymes.
• Circulation of the Sub regional information: generate mechanisms in order to spread the information of the sub region. Make the data base development accessible through the web.
For the development of the actions indicated, it was agreed to elaborate documents in which necessities and strengths of each country were expressed. It was delegated to each country representatives the responsibility of consolidating the information contributed by the country members.
Support for a Regional Program of Science and Technology Indicators
In the framework of the Lima Action Plan, resulting of the First Meeting of Ministers
and Higher Authorities of Science and Technology held in Lima, Peru, November
11 and 12, the Science and Technology ministries of the hemisphere emphasized
the importance of building a regional program for Science, Technology
and Innovation Indicators.
One of the points of the Action Plan remarks the importance of “supporting
the creation of a Regional Program of Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators,
using the cooperation mechanisms of Network on Science and Technology
Indicators (RICYT), recognising the importance of measuring the social
impact of the national and regional programs of science and technology for development,
and to improve the formulation of sector indicators, regarding the gender approach”
RICYT presents a new edition of the annual publication “El
Estado de la Ciencia” including the main Science and
Technology Indicators - 2003, where is analyzed the science and technology
situation in the region.
In this opportunity, the book contains different articles analyzing the state
of the art in the field of the scientific and technology measurement of the
region and also it presents new indicators.
First Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities of Science and Technology within the Framework of CIDI
The First Hemispheric Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities on Science
and Technology within the Framework of CIDI will be held in Lima, Peru on November
11-12, 2004. It will discuss the role of science, technology, engineering, and
innovation on the economic, social, cultural and scientific development within
the Member States. It will also discuss its great impact in the job creation
for confronting poverty and strengthening democratic governments, which will
be the topics of the next Summit of High Authorities and Governments of the
Americas that will take place in 2005.
With great success ended the VI Workshop on Science and Technology Indicators,
organized by RICYT in Buenos Aires on September 15, 16 and 17. More than 300 people
took part in the meeting, representing almost all the regional countries, along
professionals from international institutions as OAS, OECD and UNESCO. The workshop
had 80 presentations, available in this site.
As conclusion of the workshop, the participants raised a final declaration recommending
the support to RICYT’s activities in order to consolidate the regional scientific
and technological information systems. (Download
final declaration)
Under the topic of “Measuring knowledge for social transformation”,
the Sixth Workshop of Science and Technology Indicators Ibero-American
and Inter-American gathered regional and extra-regional specialists to
think about the role of science and technology indicators as guidance in politic,
scientific, technology and innovation which contribute to the socioeconomic development
in Ibero-American countries.
In addition to the traditional subjects related to the measurement of scientific
and technology activities, new issues were discussed in the framework of the meeting.
Sessions on innovation, social impact of science and technology, public perception
of science, knowledge society, biotechnology indicators, gender in science and
internationalization of science were included. The attendants to the workshop
represented science and technology institutions of the whole region, as well as
specialists of OAS, UNESCO, OECD and Eurostat.
During the conclusions of the meeting, the participants manifested that the importance
on keeping the availability of updated and reliable indicators is a permanent
challenge that deserves the support of the governments and institutions of the
different countries and, at the same time, an essential condition for those which
are capable to design and evaluate policies of science and technology development,
closely related to the objectives of economic and social development.
The XI Seminar on Technology Management have been performed
The XI Seminar on Technology Management will take place in Sanvador/Bahia, Brazil, supported by ALTEC – Latin- Ibero-American Association for Technology Management.
The event will be carried out through an alliance between various well-known Brazilian institutions, with the coordination of the Group of Technology Policy and Management of the University of São Paulo (PGT/USP), the Federation of Industries of the State of Bahia through the Euvaldo Lodi Institute - FIEB/IEL, the State University of Campinas - UNICAMP, the Secretariat for Science, Technology and Innovation of the State of Bahia - SECTI/BA, the State University of Bahia - UFBA, and the University of Salvador - UNIFACS.
Central-America Seminar-Workshop on Science and Technology Indicators with a gender approach
Between the activities programmed for 2004, the Network on Science and Technology Indicators –Ibero-American and Inter-American- organized the Central-America Seminar-Workshop on Science and Technology Indicatorswith a gender approach. The meeting took place in June 10 and 11, 2004, in San Salvador , El Salvador . It was aimed at encouraging the elaboration of Science and Technology indicators in the region, under a gender-centred perspective.
There were present many representants of Science and Technology, as:
José Roberto Alegría Coto, Departamento de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico (CONACYT) El Salvador; Guillermo Godínez, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONCYT) Guatemala; Aquiles Díaz Chávez, Consejo Hondureño de Ciencia y Tecnología (COHCIT) Honduras; Miriam Andrea Vigil Rodríguez, Consejo Nicaragüense de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONICYT) Nicaragua; Pilar Trimiño Vásquez, Comisión Nacional de Indicadores de Ciencia y Tecnología/Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica; and Lourdes Palma, Secretaría Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología e Innovación (SENACYT) Panama.
The meeting was co-organized with the local counterpart of CONACYT, and it was supported by OAS and OEI. María Elina Estébanez (researcher from Centro REDES, Argentina ) coordinated the meeting, in representation RICYT .
In the framework of the Project “Toward the construction of a system for science, technology and innovation indicators”, supported by the Organization of American States (OAS), Network on Science and Technology Indicators –Ibero-American and Inter-American- ( RICYT /CITED) has programmed a series of activities aimed at applying a gender approach to the construction of indicators in the region. As a part of these activities, it was performed the first sub-regional meeting, intended to begin the reflection about methodological alternatives and posibilities for the construction of science and gender indicators. The meeting took place in San Salvador , El Salvador , June 10 and 11, 2004, and was co-organized with the local counterpart of CONACYT. The meeting, titled Seminar-Workshop on Science and Technology Indicators with a gender approach, had the support of OAS and the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI).
In the framework of VI Indicators Workshop, UNESCO Institute for Statistics
(UIS) and RICYT signed a cooperation agreement in the field of science
and technology statistics and indicators. The purpose is to strengthened the joint
work, considering that both institutions share the objective of developing better
statistics and indicators in the field of Science and Technology.
The signing of the agreement formalizes the joint work carried out by RICYT and
UIS and gives a new institutional thrust to the development of science, technology
and innovation indicators in the region.
The agreement sets a general framework of cooperation between both institutions
and points out the next areas:
• Data collection: it was agreed that RICYT will carry out the collection
of the information in the regional countries and give the information to the UIS,
respecting the principles of non data duplication.
• Publications and circulation: Both institutions cooperate with the circulation
of the activities and will carry out publications on the shared topics.
• Creation of capabilities: it was compelled the cooperation in the creation
of science and technology capabilities, sharing the acknowledgements which refers
to human sources and available methodologies.
• Methodological Development: it was agreed to develop jointly documents
of methodological development. Also, the UIS will spread the documents made by
the RICYT along the region.
RICYT and the Institut de l’Information Scientifique
et Technique (INIST – CNRS) of France, signed an agreement on cooperation
for the production of indicators and the analysis of scientific information. The
agreement includes the common work on research projects, knowledge exchanges,
advising and training.
This new agreement will let RICYT to access the bibliography data bases PASCAL
and FRANCIS and to the data analysis station STANALYST.
Advances of the Thematic Sub-Network on Innovation
2004 is a year of intense activity for the sub-network, since significant methodological developments on the subject of Innovation Indicators are taking place. Of them, one of the most important is the project for the revision of the Bogotá Manual, which is amongst RICYT’s main activities for this year.
Coincidentally, OECD continues working on the redaction of a new version of the Oslo Manual, which would be formally presented in June 2005, within the framework of NESTI’s annual meeting. RICYT also actively participates in this effort.
Within the Latin American context, RICYT’s coordination has promoted, as a part of the Innovation Sub-Network activities, networking of experts directly linked to the design and performing of innovation surveys carried out in the region over the last years. The goal is to update and complement the recommendations included the Bogotá Manual 2000 version. Results of this work will be presented at RICYT’s Sixth Workshop on Science and Technology Indicators –Ibero-American and Inter-American- to be hold in Buenos Aires, September 2004. Preliminary documents and contributions, which are a part of the materials produced at the project’s stages, are already available.
Regarding the Oslo Manual, RICYT has attended the different workshops carried out on this subject, and is currently coordinating –jointly with UIS-UNESCO- the elaboration of an annex that will accompany the main text of the manual’s next version. This annex will contain recommendations appropriate for measuring innovation in non-members developing countries.
RICYT new comparative indicators are now available. The updated series cover from 1990 to 2002, including the 28 countries that currently provide information to the network.
Indicators expressed in Purchase Power Parity (PPP) are also being included, in order to provide a new perspective in the S&T information comparison.
The Purchase Power Parity (PPP) represents the quantity of local currency units required to buy goods or services in the local market, as one dollar would do in the United States market (using that country as reference). In that way, PPP measures involve the exchange rate, as well as the relative prices index of each country.
The main objective of PPP measures is to obtain the real values for the comparison of the GDP and S&T expenditure between countries.
All these tables will be published in the new edition of de annual report “El Estado de la Ciencia 2003”.
“Toward the construction of a science, technology and innovation indicators system”
The Network on Science and Technology Indicators (RICYT/ CYTED) continues with the activities anticipated for 2004 in the framework of the project “Toward the construction of a science, technology and innovation indicators system. Basic Platform” approved by the Organization of American States (OAS).
The Ibero-American Program of Science and Technology for Development (CYTED), to which RICYT belongs, has celebrated its twentieth anniversary, last May, 11th.
As CYTED members, we send our regards and thankfulness to all the colleagues with who we face the challenge of scientific cooperation for Ibero-American development.
In the framework of the project “Towards the construction of a science, technology and innovation indicators system. Basic Platform”, funded by the Organization of American States (OAS) for 2004, RICYT organized the “Central-American Seminar- Workshop on science and technology indicators under a gender focus”.
The seminar took place in San Salvador, El Salvador on June 10 and 11. It´s purpose was to improve the construction of Science and Technology Indicators in the region with a gender focus.
The workshop was co-organizated localy by CONACYT and supported by OEI.
The Workshop´s coordination, from RICYT, was taken by María Elina Estébanez, a REDES (Centro de Estudios sobre Ciencia, Desarrollo y Educación Superior –Grupo REDES Argentina) researcher.
The seminar counted with the presence of representants of Science and Technology Organizations of the region. Some of the 25 assistants were the following: José Roberto Alegría Coto (CONACYT, El Salvador); Guillermo Godínez, (CONCYT, Guatemala); Aquiles Díaz Chávez, (COHCIT, Honduras); Miriam Andrea Vigil Rodríguez, (CONICYT Nicaragua); Pilar Trimiño Vásquez, (Comisión Nacional de Indicadores de Ciencia y Tecnología/Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica); y Lourdes Palma, (SENACYT, Panama).
The “First Workshop on Knowledge and New Information and Communication Technologies: Impact and Challenges for the S&T Information Systems” was held in France. The meeting was jointly organized by the Network on Science and Technology Indicators (RICYT) and the Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique (INIST- CNRS) of France, and it took place in Nancy, May 15th and 16th 2004.
This seminar aimed to approach issues related to S&T indicators in the context of the information society and its progress toward a knowledge society and a knowledge-based economy. This change in the social and technical environment poses the critical point of revising the classic S&T indicators, and of considering the definition of knowledge indicators from the perspective of the currently used bibliometric indicators.
The subject was addressed with a cooperating spirit of work, and not as a simple continuity of interventions. During the seminar it was promoted the exchange and comparison of experiences, the evaluation of the available results, and the definition of the future tasks. In this way, it was particularly enriching the possibility of having perspectives from Europe and Latin-America.
In the framework of the International Information Congress INFO 2004 held in Havana (Cuba), RICYT organized the round table on “Measurement of Scientific, Technological and Innovative Production”.
The event, carried out on April 12th – 16th 2004, joined specialists, professionals, researchers and students in the field of measurement of the results of scientific and technological activities.
During the round table, coordinated by Anna María Prat (CONICYT, Chile) and Gustavo Arber (Technician Secretary of RICYT), were presented new studies and researches in the field of bibliometric studies.
The meeting also aimed to analyze and debate the state and development of the area in Latin-America, as well as discussing about the promotion of new approaches to the measurement of scientific and technology production.
