Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Banji
Author-Email: oyeyinka@intech.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: United Nations University, Institute for New Technologies
Author-Name: Gehl-Sampath, Padmashree
Author-Email: sampath@intech.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: United Nations University, Institute for New Technologies
Title: Learning Through Inter-Organizational Interactions:Public Research Institutes in the
	 Nigerian (Bio)pharmaceutical System of Innovation
Abstract: Using field level data collected in Nigeria in 2003-2004, this paper examines the
	 possibilities for learning through inter-organizational interactions in the country's
	 biotechnological system of innovation, using public research institutes as an example.
	 The paper considers inter-organizational interactions to be all forms of formal and informal
	 linkages and contacts between various agents in the system of innovation, including firms,
	 universities, traditional medicine practitioners, hospitals and other external agencies.
	 Using results obtained in the survey and the experiences of other countries that have succeeded
	 in developing biotechnological capacity, critical interactions and scope for policy interventions
	 are discussed
Keywords: Innovation, Capacity Building, Institution Building, Research, Learning, Pharmaceutical Industry, Nigeria
Series: Discussion Paper
Creation-Date: 2005
Number: 2005-02
File-URL: https://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/discussion-papers/2005-2.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 229 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unuint:200502