tatus and prospects of Knowledge and technology transfer in Bole Lemi Industry Park
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2019-10
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Knowledge and technology is taken as a driver of economic growth and welfare for every country.
It can be owned mainly in two ways; i.e. developed internally or transferred from external source.
Developed countries use their own developed knowledge and technology whereas most developing
countries invest on transferring the developed knowledge and technology through different
mechanisms.
Ethiopia, as a developing nation, has been investing on technological innovation and it is supported
with foreign direct investment. Industrial parks are treated as the center of technology transfer
while generating foreign currency and creating job opportunity. To achieve this via industrial
parks, the government plans to transfer knowledge & technology by recruiting trainers for three
year contract. It is four years since started, but the required level of knowledge & technology
transfer is not achieved yet by two main cases, as per the information from EiC & park
management. One, expats are asking contract renewal referring insufficient achievement of planed
training & two, trained labors leave the company due to dissatisfactory cases.
This thesis work addressed problems associated with knowledge and technology transfer from
home country (foreign investors) to host country (Ethiopia) via industrial parks established for this
and other purposes; considering Bole Lemi Industrial Park as a case. The objective of the research
is to develop an effective conceptual framework that integrate the methods, actors and actions of
knowledge and technology transfer by minimizing factors in industrial parks.
Both quantitative and qualitative data collection tools and analysis methods were used in the study.
Tabular, graphic & descriptive analysis is implemented to explain the data and to show the
meanings in result. Also, a conceptual framework is developed for integration of three
determinants of knowledge and technology transfer: methods, actors and actions; which are
identified from the literature gap.
At the last part of this research, conclusion is made based on the discussion and findings and
possible recommendations is forwarded to the responsible bodies in the government and private
sector.
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Industrial Park, Technology Transfer, Bole Lemi Industrial Park