Scientific Research Between Hope and Reality in GCC for Knowledge Support and Sustainable Development

Abstract

The researches have different types according to their disciplines, the type of the researches are classified into more than ten types that are usually known by researchers. The scientific research is one of these researches; the scientific research needs many tools and ways to be a successful research, and must be new and follows the scientific developments that were done daily. The scientific research needs an assistance from the public and private sectors in GCC, these two sectors must be a real partners in financial assistant of the scientific research, and must be connected with the needs of the sustainable development, the scientific research must be an applied research, as well as must be suitable with universities programmes and the gulf labor market needs. This article will give a fast survey about the types of the researches that are done at GCC to know the degree of usefulness of these researches to these countries and to any GCC individual, also the added value that can cause these researches to support knowledge locally and internationally. This article will discuss the degree of cost benefit that can be obtained and their affect on the GCC citizen economically, also the scientific programmes at universities will be discussed and the need to develop or find new programmes to follow the globalization and transfer the universities from information age to knowledge age, and their outcomes must be useful for human development, this can be done by connecting the academic programmes of the universities with GCC market needs, which is part of the world needs. This can be implemented by knowing the new trends of scientific researches, because the scientific research now, represents the progress of any country, therefore each country must take the scientific research as one of the important pillar in each organization of education such as universities or research centers.