STIC has published information on the financing of research and development and on the nature and progress of innovative projects, and in 2014 was planning to introduce bibliometric monitoring of publications in S&T.
The institution was designed as an apex body and agency for initiating, furthering, strengthening and coordinating various facilities and services concerning the collection, organization and dissemination of scientific and technological information.
Eleven critical policy issues are identified, based on the national STI problem analysis and assessment of the characteristics of countries selected as benchmarks for their best practices.
In Ethiopia there is no well-organized science and technology information source or system as required by manufacturing and service providing enterprises, higher education, researcher institutes and other entities.
Despite the fact that there are certain types of information which are prepared and kept in the form of statistics, databases, indicators and bibliography, there were no mechanisms to publish and update them regularly.
Science and technology (S&T) indicators are defined as a series of data designed to answer questions about S&T system, its internal structure, its relation with the economy and society and the degree to which it is meeting the goals of those who manage it, work within it, affected by its impacts.
This is a reflection of the fact that changes in the national STI systems affect citizens who are industrialists, policy makers, researchers, government agencies, venture capitalists and other stakeholders involved in the understanding, as well as processing such as internalization and integration of public research, higher education, and other knowledge production nodes in the economy.
The survey covered areas which show Ethiopia's investment and human resource on R&D in four sectors: government, higher education, business enterprises and private non-profits (PNP).
The 2014 survey indicated that the share of gross domestic expenditure on research and experimental development (GERD) to the GDP, or R&D intensity of the country was 0.61%.
The digital library employs tools like optical character recognition and has a pioneering OCR system developed to work with local language, Amharic.
The patent platform has multiple query generation processes, organized according to priority areas for technology transfer; it also supports the Amharic language.
The second BSC system also focuses on employee management, but from a performance point of view, using the international balanced score card scheme.
It is also web-based and helps report the progress of the organization as a whole as well as measure the performances of departments, teams and individuals in a scientific manner.