R&d Capacity Of Algeria: Actors And Indicators

Abstract

This study gives an overview of R&D capacity of Algeria, it examines indicators devoted to evaluating national R&D capacity performance, followed by a series of more detailed reviews of Algerian innovation system through analysis of the key R&D capacity actors. It also includes the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and challenges that Algeria is facing. The research undertaken clearly shows that Algeria poorly performs the R&D capacity indicators and the national innovation system on needs to be improved. The country has been invested in research and related infrastructure. Yet, the returns on these investments have not always yielded the necessary returns on issues including job creation, brain gain, scientific production, sustainable development. Algeria is still experiencing aftereffects from the bloody civil violence of 1992-2002, which caused considerable economic turmoil.