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The importance of local institutions: bottomup innovation in Uganda

In: Handbook of Innovation & Appropriate Technologies for International Development

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  • Joe Amick
  • Roy William Mayega

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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.

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  • Joe Amick & Roy William Mayega, 2022. "The importance of local institutions: bottomup innovation in Uganda," Chapters, in: Philippe Régnier & Daniel Frey & Samuel Pierre & Koshy Varghese & Pascal Wild (ed.), Handbook of Innovation & Appropriate Technologies for International Development, chapter 16, pages 240-258, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:20782_16
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