University science graduates in the developing world must be given the right opportunities to advance their careers at home if developing countries are to boost their scientific and economic capacity, says Romain Murenzi,executive director of The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS).
Although many postgraduate and postdoctoral programmes are available to students from developing countries, the improvements in scientific capacity are slow and uneven, says Murenzi. Just six developing countries account for three quarters of scientific articles published in peer-reviewed journals, with China alone contributing 30 per cent.
