Constructing the national innovation system in Rwanda: efforts and challenges

Yongabo, Parfait; Göransson, Bo

doi:10.1080/2157930x.2020.1846886

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“…The main themes for interviews included actors' involvement in the value chain activities, sources of innovation and technologies, modes of collaboration among actors, resources allocation and major challenges for technology transfer and adoption. Data from these interviews were supplemented by data from a connected study to this on 'Construction of the National Innovation System in Rwanda: Efforts and Challenges (Yongabo and Göransson 2020).' Data from this study provided additional information on the overall innovation system at the national level and general possible interactions and facilitation mechanisms as well as efforts.…”

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Technology and innovation trajectories in the Rwandan Agriculture sector: Are value chains an option?

Yongabo

2021

African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Developm

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Technology and innovation are important in addressing complex problems in the agricultural sector in many developing communities. However, ways and mechanisms to integrate them in the agricultural sector are still a challenge due to the lack of clear pathways and trajectories. Value chains are seen as a strong policy instrument to increase profitability in the agricultural sector; there is also debate around whether value chains can be a potential option to organize technology and innovation trajectories in agriculture. This paper contributes to this debate by exploring the question of how value chain interactions are organized for producing, transferring and using knowledge in the Rwandan agricultural sector. Interviews with relevant value chain actors and a review of reports and scientific literature were used to explore this question. Empirical findings show that value chain structural organization can be an entry point to mainstream technology and innovation. However, this requires building synergies and complementarities among actors. Interactive learning among value chain actors is imperative, with the use of both scientific and indigenous knowledge. Linking value chains to innovation systems is one option to explore for maximizing the potential of value chains in integrating technology and innovation in the agricultural sector.

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Technology and innovation trajectories in the Rwandan Agriculture sector: Are value chains an option?

Yongabo

2021

African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Developm

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“…Given Nigeria's abundant resources and population, one might wonder what the challenges are. Therefore, the challenges below serve as a hindrance to the research, acquisition of knowledge, skills, and competencies expected from technical vocational education (Agha, Adam & Ujebe, 2018;Oviawe, 2018;Yongabo & Göransson, 2020). Even though there is a strong commitment on paper, the progress made has been meagre compared to the expectations required by the vision and goals of the TVE.…”

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“…Above that, studies have proved that incapacitation in the implementation of functional academic research as called for by the TVE policy has affected the TVE's sustainability in technological development in Nigeria. The strategies that hinder sound research for sustainable technical vocational education to accelerate national development, as stated by Odo, Okafor, Odo & Ugwuoke (2017), Oviawe (2018), Kajaste (2018), Agha, Adam & Ujebe (2018), Sokwane & Adekanmbi (2019) and Yongabo & Göransson (2020), are: i. Continuing professional development: professional development stands as a strong challenge that needs to be addressed by the government through employment opportunities for TVE graduates.…”

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“…Every nation that has a genuine interest in economic growth and sustainable development must encourage and finance research activities and programs, skill acquisition, innovations, and the production of newly invented products. This will help the development of the interest of citizens towards TVE, which stands as a pillar for skills acquisitions to promote technological and socio-economic activities for the sustainable development of a nation (Yongabo & Göransson, 2020).…”

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“…The transition to a new society is visible in most of the developed nations in the world because of the role played by technical vocational education TVE in the knowledge of innovation and technological achievement in the development of recipients. The key issues in the innovative transformation in Africa include a lack of structured technical vocational education and academic research with access to production (Odo, Okafor, Odo & Ugwuoke, 2017;Yongabo & Göransson, 2020 ). To this end, students become a focus of the TVE educational system to support a practice-oriented system of training for competitive professionalism.…”

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