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Title Learning in Local Systems and Global Links: The Otigba Computer Hardware Cluster in Nigeria
Full text http://arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=4487
Date 2006
Author(s) Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Banji
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.
Subject(s) Economics (Jel: A); economics of technology (JEL: O); economic development and growth (JEL: O); education, training and the labour market; regional and urban economics (JEL: R)
Publisher UNU-MERIT
Type of publication Research paper
Format application/pdf
Source UNU-MERIT Working Paper Series, ISSN 1871-9872 ; vol.2006-007
Rights UNU-MERIT, 2006
Repository Maastricht - University of Maastricht
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