Challenges Facing Scientific Research in Developing Countries: 3. An Attempt at Offering Remedies and Solutions

To identify points of weakness in any system is to have taken the first step towards progress, while to define specific solutions for these problems is the second step towards success. Finally, to implement these solutions properly and in a timely fashion is the final step towards reaching individual or societal goal of moving forward. In developing countries, it appears that even the first step towards correction and improvement, i.e., identifying weakness and their natures, is an elusive, difficult move to make. Issues and events are dealt with haphazardly and whimsically. Personal opinions of bureaucrats prevail over those of experts. Structured scientific processes and methodological procedures to define problems and offer solutions are absent. As an academician in the USA for over thirty five years, I have summoned my experience and expertise to identify major problems with scientific research in developing countries in previous reports [1, 2]. It becomes now imperative that I set forth my humble attempt to propose solutions and remedies for these problems.