On this page, incrEAST provides an overview of the research and technology potential of Uzbekistan.
The system of R&D management, accepted in Uzbekistan is based on State support of fundamental & applied researches by awarding grants for relevant projects through their pre-review selection.
S&T priority fields of the country are formed taking into consideration main priorities for socio-economic development, as well as modern trends of the world science development.
Research complex of Uzbekistan includes 361 institutions in academic, high educational, medical, agricultural spheres (202 research institutes, 62 universities, 65 design organizations, 32 scientific & production associations and experimental enterprises).
Academy of Science, Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education, Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources, Ministry of Healthcare of Uzbekistan are the main ministries, having biggest R&D infrastructures.
The main task of the Uzbekistan Academy of Science is to solve main fundamental and applied scientific problems of country’s economy. The Academy has 50 research institutes in all fields of modern science & technologies, including Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Earth Sciences, Material Sciences, Information Technologies, Social Sciences, Humanities, etc.
Under High Education Ministry there are 87 universities and research institutes, having highest research potential (approx. 74% of PhDs and Doctors of Science are working in this system). One more strength of the High educational research infrastructure – it is located not only in the Capital city – Tashkent, but also in provinces: universities of Samarkand, Bukhara, Khorezm, Fergana and Termez have strong research teams and well equipped Labs, which successfully participate not only in domestic research programs, but also in programs & calls of such international organizations as FP7, CRDF, Science Program of NATO, etc.
Scientific & Production Association of Agriculture under Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources and is the biggest R&D infrastructure of Uzbekistan in the field of agriculture having 12 research institutes. Researches carried out in the Association are directed to solve main S&T problems in agricultural industry (breeding of new varieties of cotton and other industrial crops, resistance of plants to environmental stresses, water saving technologies, new effective fertilizers, horticulture, etc.).
Under Ministry of Healthcare there are 18 research institutes and 6 medical universities. Total number of persons involved in R&D in the field of medicine & development of new effective medical drugs are more than 4500. Medical Scientists of Uzbekistan successfully cooperate with their foreign partners and participate in Programs of WHO, UNDP, scientific funds EU and USA, as well as special programs of S&T cooperation with CIS and Central Asia countries.
In addition to institutes and universities underreported to mentioned ministries, there are another 143 ones, belonging to other ministries and independent entities which also have rather big research potential (approx. 25%). Coordination and financing of R&D activities of these entities are executed directly by CCSTD and these researches cover, practically, all priority S&T fields.
Committee for Coordination of Science and Technology Development under Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan (CCSTD) is the main Governmental body responsible for implement of the state S&T policy. CCSTD has been established by the Decree of the President of Uzbekistan No 436 from 07/08/2006.
The main tasks of CCSTD are as follows:
Organizational chart of CCSTD
Main R&D funding institutions and mechanisms
In conditions of realization of economic reforms on transition of the Republic to the market economy the necessity of development of the appropriate principles of regulation of scientific and technical activity is urgently dictated. This is famous in the world experience, the principle of state support for the development of scientific and innovation activity, which assumes the complete orientation to the final scientific and technological results, competitive selection of perspective applied researches and developments, stimulation of competitiveness of intellectual production, effective functioning of economic and legal mechanisms determining the responsibility of the participants of scientific and technical and innovative activity for the results of work and target use of state funds.
Meanwhile the state support by financial assets and material resources is carried out not for the separate establishments of science and hierarchical structures but concrete programs and projects.
Competitive innovative scientific and technical projects cover, as a rule, a sphere of applied scientific researches and developments in the field of natural and technical sciences, experienced and design and technological works. Meanwhile the developments should be focused on reception of concrete "commodity" result as a trial samples of installations or experimental batches of production proceeding from the purposes and tasks of calls on a basis of significant results, inventions, advanced technologies etc.
State programs of basic and applied researches and international cooperation are developed on the basis of per-review selection of the proposals submitted to Academy of Science, Ministry of High education, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Healthcare, by their underreported institutes and universities and to CCSTD by others. The indicated ministries receive funds for execution of relevant programs from Ministry of Finance.
Main R&D funding institutions and mechanisms
In conditions of realization of economic reforms on transition of the Republic to the market economy the necessity of development of the appropriate principles of regulation of scientific and technical activity is urgently dictated. This is famous in the world experience, the principle of state support for the development of scientific and innovation activity, which assumes the complete orientation to the final scientific and technological results, competitive selection of perspective applied researches and developments, stimulation of competitiveness of intellectual production, effective functioning of economic and legal mechanisms determining the responsibility of the participants of scientific and technical and innovative activity for the results of work and target use of state funds.
Meanwhile the state support by financial assets and material resources is carried out not for the separate establishments of science and hierarchical structures but concrete programs and projects.
Competitive innovative scientific and technical projects cover, as a rule, a sphere of applied scientific researches and developments in the field of natural and technical sciences, experienced and design and technological works. Meanwhile the developments should be focused on reception of concrete "commodity" result as a trial samples of installations or experimental batches of production proceeding from the purposes and tasks of calls on a basis of significant results, inventions, advanced technologies etc.
State programs of basic and applied researches and international cooperation are developed on the basis of per-review selection of the proposals submitted to Academy of Science, Ministry of High education, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Healthcare, by their underreported institutes and universities and to CCSTD by others. The indicated ministries receive funds for execution of relevant programs from Ministry of Finance.
Source: IUCP-T
Last up-date: 12 October 2010
