intellectual property, in particular the Policy on Science and Technology, the Strategy for
Science, Technology and Innovation, the Industrial Policy and Strategy, the
Rural Development Strategy, the Policy on Traditional Medicine, the Cultural Policy, and the
Strategic Plan on Education and Culture.
Agenda 2025 defines “Education, Science and Technology as vehicles for improving the
knowledge of the population and raising the quality of human resources”. In addition, this
important document suggests that “scientific research and development must give priority to
matters that directly meet the need for solutions to the problems facing the country, such as, inter
alia, disease and the production of drought-resistant seeds.
Point 223 of the PARPA recommends as follows: “for Science and Technology (S&T) to play a
strategic role, a fully developed national S&T system needs to be established. Such a system
would include, for example, policy guidelines and strategies for public and private institutions
that generate knowledge (i.e., scientific research), that transform knowledge into products,
services and solutions (i.e., the results of innovation), that develop human resources (for
example, the education sector), that direct and coordinate the system (i.e., Ministry of Science
and Technology) and also the roles, relationships and links between the players within the S&S
system which must be set up and properly maintained so that it will function as it needs to”.
Mozambique’s Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy states that “fair access to Science
and Technology is the constitutional right of all Mozambicans, irrespective of their geographical
location. We will therefore improve our mechanisms for disseminating science and technology,
the fruits of scientific research and technology transfer” and “... knowledge is the primary
resource for production in Mozambique and the key to reducing poverty is the application of
knowledge”. To attain this objective, the Strategy stipulates that an appropriate economic and
institutional regime must be set up, to provide a suitable incentive scheme for the creation,
adaptation, dissemination and use of new and existing knowledge.