The Technology Monitoring Unit
Article 37.- (1) Placed under the authority of a Unit Head, the Technology Monitoring Unit is responsible for:
- the development and monitoring of the national technology watch policy;
- inventory of technologies impacting national development;
- the development and monitoring of the management of intellectual property policy relating to the national research and innovation system, in liaison with the administrations and organizations concerned;
- the implementation of training and information strategies for the national technology watch policy;
- the exploitation of technical reports, articles, dissertations and theses produced in the technological, agropastoral and fisheries sectors, in liaison with the administrations concerned;
- monitoring innovations, in liaison with the administrations and organizations concerned;
- the creation and operation of a database of relevant information making it possible to anticipate technological developments.
(2) It includes, in addition to the Head of Unit, two (02) Assistant Study Managers.