UNESCO's Science Report was first issued in 1993, and it examines developments and tendencies of countries on scientific researches, renovations and higher education.
Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) stated in its January bulletin that UNESCO's 2010 Science Report displayed scientific and technological developments in the world in 2010.
The report reserved parts for countries, which emerged in science and technology areas, like Brazil, India, China and Turkey, and said that developing countries were challenging Europe and the U.S. in research & development area.
The part about Turkey stated that Turkey doubled its expenses for research & development, while private sector's expenses for research & development increased 60 percent.
The UNESCO Science Report was launched in 1993 under the name of World Science Report. Since then, four reports have provided a periodic review of the state of science around the world through the eyes of an independent team of experts. A series of informative and thought-provoking essays identifies and discusses emerging trends in scientific research and higher education, by country or by region. The series was interrupted in 2000 by the decision of UNESCO's Executive Board to re-examine UNESCO's policy for world reports. The Board decided to launch a series of world reports on cross-cutting themes related to UNESCO's work. To avoid confusion with the new series, the report on global science policy trends was renamed the UNESCO Science Report |
