The importance of local institutions: bottomup innovation in Uganda

Joe Amick and Roy William Mayega

Chapter 16 in Handbook of Innovation & Appropriate Technologies for International Development, 2022, pp 240-258 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The Resilient Africa Network (RAN) is a research and innovation hub located at Makerere University's School of Public Health in Uganda. Using RAN as a case study, the chapter provides a historical account to explain how professors at Makerere over time came to support locally-led innovation in Uganda, how Makerere University has acted as a resource to innovators for specialized information, and how it continues to provide reputational benefits to RAN innovators. Using data from qualitative interviews with 46 randomly selected innovators, the findings suggest that healthcare innovators access highly specialized information and gain reputational benefits from their affiliation with Makerere University more often than agricultural innovators. Moreover, oversight mechanisms such as Internal review boards can substitute state oversight allowing innovations to continue to be developed and tested, while state oversight capacity is gradually built.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Innovations and Technology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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