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Author-Name: Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Banji
Author-Email: oyeyinka@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and social
	 Research and training centre on Innovation and Technology
Title: Learning in Local Systems and Global Links: The Otigba Computer Hardware Cluster in Nigeria
Abstract: Conventional wisdom suggests to the fact that poor countries are
	 unlikely to be host to a “high-technology” sector and doing so within
	 the organization of small and medium enterprises. This paper examines an
	 unusual phenomenon of industrial organization in an African setting; the
	 emergence of a cluster of an information technology hardware cluster in
	 a very late industrializing country, Nigeria. The evolution of the
	 Otigba Computer Hardware Village (OCV) in Lagos, Nigeria has proceeded
	 largely without direct support from the state and indeed within a
	 decidedly hostile institutional and arid infrastructural environment.
	 Yet the cluster has thrived, thus far, with institutional support of a
	 local trade and manufacturing association. The study holds important
	 lessons for late industrializing countries entering into a knowledge
	 intensive sector.   
Classification-JEL: J24, L63, O31
Keywords: learning, innovation system, computer hardware, clusters
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2006
Number: 2006-007
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2006/wp2006-007.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2006007