Rwelamila , Pantaleo Daniel
(2012)
Research Contribution To Innovation In Infrastructure Development
In Africa: Assessing The Status.
Journal of Construction in Developing Countries , 17 (1).
pp. 43-56.
ISSN 1823-6499
Abstract
After completing the two phases of preliminary research, this paper reports major
findings that are directed towards two primary objectives. The first is to assess numerous
research findings on the challenges of the African Infrastructure Sector (AIS) that are not
currently being employed by various academic and research institutions. The second is to
clearly identify the primary factors that contribute to the disconnection between the
research findings and the implementation of innovation in the sector. This paper reports that
most of the challenges have solutions that have been provided in various documents, while
the majority of the challenges that necessitated these research projects continue to
negatively affect the AIS. This paper aims to initiate a debate on the need to re-examine the
currently existing research findings and convert them to an applied form that is ready for use
by practitioners and policy makers. A variety of methods and techniques was used to gather
the information contained in the paper, but the primary methods used were reviewing work
from researchers across the world regarding the implementation of research findings,
reviewing previously published research results on the challenges facing the AIS and semistructured interviews with senior researchers and policy implementers in randomly selected
African countries. The findings of these studies strongly suggest that researchers within these
countries continue to present their findings at various forums but that very little of the
research is translated for implementation. A number of causes of this situation are identified
herein and recommendations for addressing the challenges are given.
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