Tudományszervezési Tájékoztató, 1968

5. szám - Bibliográfia

THE MOSCOW SYMPOSIUM ON SCIENCE POLICY Oil May 21-24, I968, the Standing Committee on the Coordination of Scientific and Technological Research of the Council of Mutual Economic Aid /COMECON/ held a Symposium on the problems of "The Management, Planning, and Organization of Scientific and Technological Research" in Moscow. 140 lectures were read and the discussion involved some 400 scientists and specialists of nine socialist countries. The Symposium focussed its interest on four main groups of problems of the "Science of Science"; 1. General theoretical and sociological aspects of science; 2. Problems of managing and planning scientific and technological research work; 3- Economic accounting and incentives of scientific and technological research; 4. International cooperation in science and technology. The Symposium was begun with a plenary session offering 16 lectures of general interest,and concluded hy another plenary session summarizing the work of the four Sections. THE THIRD MINISTERIAL MEETING OF OECD COUNTRIES ON SCIENCE POLICY It was for the third time in March, 1968 that the member states of the OECD discussed the topical problems of scientific research on a ministerial level. /The Bulletin plans to come back to the subject in the near future and to review the confidential papers of the meeting. This time we restrict ourselves to outlining some of the major issues on this important conference./ The ministerial meeting first tackled the problems involved in the advancement and organizational improvement of basic research. Special attention was paid to the evaluation of governmental science policy in the individual countries, and also to outlining their particular tasks. As the main characteristic of the present situation it has been established that the most important changes in basic research can be identified as the increasing significance of inter-disciplinary and "borderline" fields of research, the energetic increase in research expenditures, and the exceedingly important role of research in realizing national objectives. As the second item on the agenda, the meeting examined, in detail, the technological gap between the member states and also the ways of narrowing it. In this context, they analysed the particular problems of the developing member states of the OECD, based on some studies concerning the situation in Greece, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, and Yugoslavia. Concerning the application of new technological and scientific achievements on a large scale, as well as the limitation of differences in the technological field between the individual member states, international scientific and technological cooperation was described as being of great moment. The OECD wishes to support and 897