@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2021.0668, TITLE={Science, Technology and Economic Development: Important and critical issues}, AUTHOR={Vanessa Casadella, }, JOURNAL={Science, Technology, Development}, VOLUME={1}, NUMBER={Issue 1}, YEAR={2021}, URL={https://www.openscience.fr/Science-Technology-and-Economic-Development-Important-and-critical-issues}, DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2021.0668}, ISSN={2752-6879}, ABSTRACT={Science and technology (S&T) are major challenges for economic development and social progress. Inscribed in the SDGs of 2015 for the 2030 Agenda, their legitimacy is not recent in the issue of developing countries or countries in transition. However, if their merits were linked to the appropriation and dissemination of technology stricto sensu, the current view of them is broader and linked to the construction of competencies and capacities. This article proposes to revisit the state of the art of science and technology as interrelated with economic development, before exposing the important but thwarted link in current theories of economic development.}}