Impact of research on development in Cameroon: convergence between supply and research needs in the food sector
The study analyse the convergence of research priorities to development issues especially from the agricultural and food sector in terms of environmental protection and improvement of the business climate, due to weak institution al interconnection devices. Two types of data are used: bibliometric data and a survey of enterprises. Altogether, 1214 and 1708 bibliographic references were generated from WoS and Scopus respectively (from a total of 9146 and 10 557 publications) in Agriculture, Food and Environment for the period 1991-2015 subject to the condition that the author or at least one of the authors is affiliated to an institution based in Cameroon. A total of 317 agro-food companies were identified from the National Institute enterprise's census. The overall message is a relative weak convergence between development priorities identified from perceptions over agricultural and food companies and research works expressed in the scientific literature. This reflects the weak link between research institutions (universities, research canter's) and professional milieus that shape entrepreneurship (firms, policy makers) for guidance of scientific production.
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| Format: | conference_item biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
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| Subjects: | A50 - Recherche agronomique, E14 - Économie et politique du développement, E21 - Agro-industrie, |
| Online Access: | http://agritrop.cirad.fr/581671/ http://agritrop.cirad.fr/581671/13/ID581671.pdf |
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| Summary: | The study analyse the convergence of research priorities to development issues especially from the agricultural and food sector in terms of environmental protection and improvement of the business climate, due to weak institution al interconnection devices. Two types of data are used: bibliometric data and a survey of enterprises. Altogether, 1214 and 1708 bibliographic references were generated from WoS and Scopus respectively (from a total of 9146 and 10 557 publications) in Agriculture, Food and Environment for the period 1991-2015 subject to the condition that the author or at least one of the authors is affiliated to an institution based in Cameroon. A total of 317 agro-food companies were identified from the National Institute enterprise's census. The overall message is a relative weak convergence between development priorities identified from perceptions over agricultural and food companies and research works expressed in the scientific literature. This reflects the weak link between research institutions (universities, research canter's) and professional milieus that shape entrepreneurship (firms, policy makers) for guidance of scientific production. |
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