Knowledge for development: university-firm interaction in sub-Saharan Africa: the case of Nigeria: working papers

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dc.date.accessioned 2009-05-20 en
dc.date.accessioned 2023-08-05T01:10:53Z
dc.date.available 2023-08-05T01:10:53Z
dc.date.issued 2015-08-25 en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/4913
dc.description August en
dc.description.abstract The Research on Knowledge Systems (RoKS) 2006 competition provided funding that has opened up a new field and delineated the contours of a research agenda in relation to the changing role of the university in sub-Saharan Africa. Governments in developing countries are increasingly imitating developed countries, by adopting policy, incentives and programmes aimed to promote linkages between universities and firms. In sub-Saharan Africa, with the largest number of low-income countries, there is evidence to suggest that policy-borrowing to promote university-industry linkages is occurring, but in a manner that does not take sufficient cognizance of the specifics of the local context and conditions, which may have unintended deleterious consequences. There is as yet not a great deal of research on the changing role of universities, but what does exist often engages with the challenges in aspirational and normative ways. There has been little systematic analysis of the conditions of universities, firms and their potential for interaction to contribute to growth and development in the low income countries of sub-Saharan Africa. Such concerns inspired a study to examine systematically how university-firm interaction contributes to national development goals in three countries at different stages of development in sub-Saharan Africa, namely Nigeria, Uganda and South Africa. The study was also conducted in nine other countries, in Latin America (Brazil, Costa Rica, Argentina and Mexico) and Asia (Korea, China, India, Malaysia and Thailand), providing a basis for systematic comparative work across countries of the South. en
dc.format.medium Intranet en
dc.publisher Human Sciences Research Council en
dc.subject SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA en
dc.subject UNIVERSITIES en
dc.subject NIGERIA en
dc.title Knowledge for development: university-firm interaction in sub-Saharan Africa: the case of Nigeria: working papers en
dc.type Research report-client en
dc.ProjectNumber N/A en
dc.BudgetYear 2008/09 en
dc.ResearchGroup Education, Science and Skills Development en
dc.ArchiveNumber 5789 en
dc.URL http://ktree.hsrc.ac.za/doc_read_all.php?docid=2578 en
dc.outputnumber 4333 en
dc.bibliographictitle Kruss, G., Lorentzen, J., Petersen, I., Nabudere, D., Luutu, B., Tabaro, E., Mayanja, D., Adeoti, J., Odekunle, K. & Adeyinka, F. (2009) Knowledge for development: university-firm interaction in sub-Saharan Africa: the case of Nigeria: working papers. (August). http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/4913 en
dc.publicationyear 2009 en
dc.contributor.author1 Kruss, G. en
dc.contributor.author2 Lorentzen, J. en
dc.contributor.author3 Petersen, I. en
dc.contributor.author4 Nabudere, D. en
dc.contributor.author5 Luutu, B. en
dc.contributor.author6 Tabaro, E. en
dc.contributor.author7 Mayanja, D. en
dc.contributor.author8 Adeoti, J. en
dc.contributor.author9 Odekunle, K. en
dc.contributor.author10 Adeyinka, F. en


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