ATPS is a multi-disciplinary network of researchers, policy makers and other end-users interested in the generation, promotion and strengthening of innovative technology/industrial policies in Africa. With a regional secretariat in Nairobi, it operates through national chapters in seventeen countries with an expansion plan in place to cover the entire sub-Saharan Africa.
ATPS specific objectives are:
- Capacity building and enhancement for technology policy formulation implementation
- Generating a critical mass of knowledge on technology policy issues
- Fostering networking and collaborative research
- Dissemination of research results
- capacity building, for example through enhancing proposal skills
- publishing a working papers series, techno policy briefs, research papers series, and special paper series
- policy submissions and networking with researchers and policy makers