scholarly journals Factors challenging research and innovation in tertiary education in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 224-229
Author(s):  
Felix Chukwuma Aguboshim ◽  
Irene Nkechi Onwuka ◽  
Ifeyinwa Nkemdilim Obiokafor ◽  
Nwamaka Peace Oboti
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Third World ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Significant Information ◽  
Underdeveloped Countries ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Innovation In Education ◽  
Challenging Research ◽  
Key Driver ◽  
The Third World

Research and innovation in tertiary education is a key driver of sustainable economic development of any nation. A global reflection from the perspective of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) clearly shows that global promotion of research and innovation in education is a pivot for knowledge, skills, abilities and attitudes to combat challenges against ESD. Despite these global reflections, Nigeria has continued to be among the third world or underdeveloped countries. Moreover, as research and innovation become more complex globally, Nigerian tertiary education is further constrained by poor sponsorship, out-dated Intellectual Property (IP) policies, and non-sustainable ICT innovations despite her huge human resources and other natural endowments. This study highlights the gaps created by these challenging factors and strategies to close them. A narrative review of prior research that focused on the theoretical underpinnings of vast works of literature that revealed significant information on challenges facing research and innovation in tertiary education in Nigeria and strategies to close these gaps was adopted. Peer-reviewed articles within the last five years from electronic databases, using some keywords such as “research”, “innovation”, “tertiary education”, etc, were also extracted. Results show that research and innovation are crippled by out-dated, non-sustainable or virtually non-existent policies, and poor educational system. Findings from this study may encourage research and innovation in our tertiary education that may positively bring about diversified economy, positive social change, and economic development in Nigerian.

Amiya Kumar Bagchi. The Political Economy of Underdevelopment. London: Cambridge University Press. 1982. Reprint 1983. pp.viii+276. List of books for further reading; Index. Price: £ 8.50 (paperback edition).

1985 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-82
Author(s):  
Zia Ul Haq
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Third World ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Growth Strategies ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Third World

Amiya Kumar Bagchi, an eminent economist of the modern Cambridge tradition, has produced a timely treatise, in a condensed form, on the development problems of the Third World countries. The author's general thesis is that economic development in the developing societies necessarily requires a radical transformation in the economic, social and political structures. As economic development is actually a social process, economic growth should not be narrowly defined as the growth of the stock of rich capitalists. Neither can their savings be equated to capital formation whose impact on income will presumably 'trickle down' to the working classes. Economic growth strategies must not aim at creating rich elites, because, according to the author, "maximizing the surplus in the hands of the rich in the Third World is not, however, necessarily a way of maximizing the rate of growth".

Crime, Justice, And Underdevelopment: The Palestinians Under Israeli Control

1988 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 411-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elia Zureik
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Third World ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Third ◽  
Norm Violation ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Relationship

Orthodox theories of crime in the Third World and in regions of uneven economic development offer a unilinear explanation of the relationship between economic development and increased crime rates. Simply stated, this Durkheimian position views the transition from traditional to modern society as being associated with the weakening of mechanical forms of solidarity and the emergence of secular and impersonal role structures based on a complex division of labor. Universalistic and achievement criteria replace ascriptive and particularistic values, and deviance-derived social control models based on formalized coercive sanctions substitute for traditional and community-based forms of control. Anomic behavior, frustration of expectations, and norm violation are considered an expected, if transitory, outcome of social change, and are explained on the basis of a clash between modern and traditional value systems.

Education, Economic Development, and Technology Transfer: A Colonial Test

1989 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 939-957 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. Hanson
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Third World ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Formal Schooling ◽  
Mineral Sector ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World

I test the hypothesis advanced by Richard Easterlin and others that the importation of modern technology and prospects for economic development in the Third World are principally a function of the local population's formal schooling. According to orthodoxy, manufacturing more than any other sector should repay investment in human capital. Yet the correlation of schooling with the manufacturing sector is much lower than with the mineral sector, an enclave in colonial economies and a symbol of underdevelopment.

Political Corruption in Nigeria Before Independence

1993 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Tignor
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Third World ◽  
Political Corruption ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Political Integration ◽  
Regime Changes ◽  
The Third ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Third World

Political corruption is widespread in contemporary societies, and is regarded by some analysts of the Third World as the single most important obstacle to economic development and political integration. Certainly the frequent régime changes which have occurred in Africa in the last several decades have been accompanied by charges of gross administrative malfeasance and promises to introduce honest government. Perhaps no country in the continent has devoted more attention and energy to continuing allegations of corruption than Nigeria. Indeed, from the late colonial period up until the present, critics of those in power have lamented the level of venality, and numerous published reports have catalogued a wide range of iniquities and called for reform.

Economic Development in the Third World. An Introduction to Problems and Policies in a Global Perspective

1978 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 324
Author(s):  
Bankey L. Sharma ◽  
N. R. Vasudeva Murthy ◽  
Michael P. Todaro
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Third World ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World
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