Importance of Openness for Production and Innovation in Informal Sector Cluster: Lessons From Nigeria

Billy Adegbola Oluwale, Oluseye Oladayo Jegede, Blessing Funke Ajao and Emmanuel Makanjuola Ogunjemilua
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Billy Adegbola Oluwale: Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria
Oluseye Oladayo Jegede: SARChI Entrepreneurship Education, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Blessing Funke Ajao: National Centre for Technology Management, Nigeria
Emmanuel Makanjuola Ogunjemilua: Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria

International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (IJSKD), 2021, vol. 13, issue 4, 17-31

Abstract: The study investigated the role of openness, networking, and partnership on production and innovation among firms within the Otigba ICT cluster in Nigeria. A questionnaire were administered on 200 purposively selected business owners/leaders of informal tech-based enterprises in the cluster. The results showed that there were simultaneous occurrence of competition and co-operation within the cluster. Modes of openness within the cluster were by exchanging information and sharing experience with other technicians. Firms were majorly (70%) involved in process and marketing innovations (30%). Openness, networking, and partnership played a very significant role on access to information, customers, new domestic market, tools/technology, suppliers of raw materials, and inputs among the enterprises. A majority (95%) of the respondent enterprises which exhibited cluster attributes were involved in one form of innovation or the other. The study concluded that openness, networking, and partnership had engendered scaling-up among the enterprises.

Date: 2021
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