Component of Ghana’s R & D system
                                          National 
                                          STIPolicies 
                                            and 
                                          Regulations
                                                      National STI 
                                                      Institutions/
                             Funding for              Infrastructur
                               STI                       e
                                         Component
                                            s of 
                                          Ghana’s 
                                          STI system
                                  National STI   National STI  
                                  Programmes       Human 
                                                  Resources
            National STI Policies and Regulations
        •   National STI Policy and 5 National STI 
           Development Plan 
        •   Technology Transfer Regulation, 1992
        •   Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Act, 
           1996
        •   Cocoa Research Institute Act
        •   Ghana Atomic Energy Commission Act, 2000
        •   Intellectual property Act, 2003
        •   Industrial Design Act, 2003,
        •   Copy Right Act, 2005
        •   Others –Universities act (eg. KNUST Acts, UG Act)
                 National STI Institutions/ Infrastructure
    •     Policy Body:
        Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation- Responsible for National STI policies
        Ministry of Education- Responsible for National STI education policies
        Implementing Body:
        2 Major Public Research bodies- CSIR -13 Institutes and GAEC -6 Atomic and Nuclear Institutes
        1 Ghana Space Science and Technology Institute under GAEC
        1 Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG)
        2 Medical Research Institutes- Noguchi Medical Research Institute and Center for Scientific Research in Plants Medicine 
         (CSRPM), Mampong
        GRATIS Foundation
        Ghana Standards Authority
        Food and Drugs Board
        10 Public Universities
        8 Technical Universities
        2 Polytechnics
        Others- 38 Colleges of Education and 8 Technical Institutes
         Approximately 6 out of the 60+ accredited private Universities are into some Science, Technology, Engineering and 
         Mathematics (STEM) related areas
        National STI (R & D) Human Resources
    STI Teaching Staf
                               2013                     2014                     2015
                      Public   Privat  Total    Public  Privat  Total   Public  Privat  Total 
                               e                        e                       e 
   Professors         170      1       171      153     1       154     149     1       150
   Doctoral (Phd)     892      18      910      832     20      852     989     20      1009
   Master’s           1244     32      1276     1405    80      1485    1560    88      1648
   (MSc/MA/Mphil)
   Sub - Total        2306     51      2357     2390    101     2491    2698    109     2807
       National STI programmes 2009-Date
     Total R&D personnel by sector of employment and occupation – 2015.
                                       Governmen         Higher             Total 
                                            t           Education
                                      No.    %      No.     %          No.     %
    Researchers                       870    62.0   4709    80.8       5579    77.2
    Technicians                       175    12.5   1052    18.1       1227    17.0
    Other supporting Staf             358    25.5   66      1.1        424     5.8
    Total                             1403 100      5827 100           7230    100