Innovation policies institutions and performance: why Malaysia overtook Nigeria in the oil palm industry

A review of public private partnership procurement practice in Malaysia

“…Malaysia was able to develop faster than other developing countries like Nigeria that had the same GDP per capita about four decades ago. This is due to the policies, institutional frameworks and investment efforts particularly in agriculture sector (Adebowale, 2012). The GDP per capita using purchasing power parity ( Source: Dutta et al (2014) The Global Innovation Index 2014 showed that Malaysia was ranked 33 out of the total 143 countries that participated in the survey (Table 3).…”

“…There is no doubt that an adequate provision of public infrastructures has multiple effects on the social and economic development for the developing countries. Malaysia was able to develop faster than other developing countries especially Nigeria that they had comparative GDP per capita together about four decades ago (Adebowale, 2012).…”

Micro-level determinants of innovation: analysis of the Nigerian manufacturing sector

“…These innovations are therefore incremental with few firms introducing new-to-market innovations (Bala-Subrahmanya 2006). Extensive sector-and cluster-based studies such as in engineering and agro-allied sector (Oyelaran-Oyeyinka et al 1996), industrial clusters (Oyelaran-Oyeyinka 1997), pharmaceutical sector , manufacturing sector (Egbetokun, Adeniyi, and Siyanbola 2012) and agricultural sector (Adebowale 2012) have been carried out in Nigeria using the innovation systems approach. These show that the impact of government support, strong institutions, networks and collaboration with knowledge institutions in enhancing firms' innovativeness is weak.…”

Introduction

“…Many of these organisations fund activities aimed at supporting the promotion of innovation systems while there has also been scholarly collaboration in articulating continental STI programmes. 5 A series of studies have pointed to a generally low prevalence of innovation and low R&D input in terms of human resources and expenditure in many parts of Africa (Adebowale 2012, Egbetokun et al 2009. In many African countries there is a big gap between the generation of scientific capacities and the needs of the productive systems and society at large.…”