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

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

Billy Adegbola Oluwale, Oluseye Oladayo Jegede, Blessing Funke Ajao, Emmanuel Makanjuola Ogunjemilua
Copyright: © 2021 |Volume: 13 |Issue: 4 |Pages: 15
ISSN: 1941-6253|EISSN: 1941-6261|EISBN13: 9781799860259|DOI: 10.4018/IJSKD.2021100102
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Oluwale, Billy Adegbola, et al. "Importance of Openness for Production and Innovation in Informal Sector Cluster: Lessons From Nigeria." IJSKD vol.13, no.4 2021: pp.17-31. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJSKD.2021100102

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Oluwale, B. A., Jegede, O. O., Ajao, B. F., & Ogunjemilua, E. M. (2021). Importance of Openness for Production and Innovation in Informal Sector Cluster: Lessons From Nigeria. International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (IJSKD), 13(4), 17-31. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJSKD.2021100102

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Oluwale, Billy Adegbola, et al. "Importance of Openness for Production and Innovation in Informal Sector Cluster: Lessons From Nigeria," International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (IJSKD) 13, no.4: 17-31. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJSKD.2021100102

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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.

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