Prof. Can Huang served in the editorial board of the UNESCO Science Report: Towards 2030, which was launched on November 10, 2015. For two decades now, the UNESCO Science Report series has been mapping science, technology and innovation (STI) around the world on a regular basis. Since STI do not evolve in a vacuum, this latest 2015 edition summarizes the evolution since 2010 against the backdrop of socio-economic, geopolitical and environmental trends that have helped to shape contemporary STI policy and governance. A quinquennial report has the advantage of being able to focus on longer-term trends, rather than becoming entrenched in descriptions of short-term annual fluctuations which, with respect to policy and science and technology indicators, rarely add much value.

Written by about 60 experts who are each covering the country or region from which they hail, the UNESCO Science Report: Towards 2030 provides more country-level information than ever before. The trends and developments in science, technology and innovation policy and governance between 2009 and mid-2015 described here provide essential baseline information on the concerns and priorities of countries that should orient the implementation and drive the assessment of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the years to come.

All resources related to the UNESCO Science Report are open access and may therefore be downloaded freely at http://en.unesco.org/unesco_science_report.