Two professors in the School of Business & Entrepreneurship (SBE) recently had their paper published in the Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economies, Sage Publishing, USA (a Schimago-listed Journal).
Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship & CSR, Dr. Lukman Raimi, and Associate Professor of Management, Dr. Hassan Yusuf, have their research paper titled "A Critical Discourse of EI and CA in Emerging Economies: The Place of Nigeria Within the Global Innovation Ecosystems."
According to the authors, the study explores the levels of and barriers to entrepreneurial innovation (EI) and competitive advantage (CA) in emerging economies and situates the findings within Nigeria's global innovation ecosystems.
From the abstract of the February 21 publication, it was gathered that the scholars used extracted data from reports of Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) and enriched by scholarly works including insights from the reports of Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEI).
Using content analysis to understand the connection between EI and CA, the scholars critically reviewed and analyzed the data.
"At the end of the analysis, the study found that for 10 years (2008–2017), Nigeria manifested low EI and CA on the GCI ranking, whereas other African countries such as Ghana, Cameroon, and South Africa, with lesser economic resources, did comparatively better."
The researchers also found the key barriers to EI and CA to be infrastructural neglect, lack of strong regulatory institutions, weak macroeconomic environment, weak technological readiness, poor business sophistication, and low innovation among others.
"The study improves understanding of theoretical, managerial and policy implications of EI and CA. It also provides appropriate strategic suggestions for stimulating EI and enhancing CA at both national and industry levels in Nigeria. The study contributes to the raging debates on EI and CA in emerging economies. It also supports the Schumpeter's creative discovery theory and the resource-based view of CA."
Access link to full paper: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2393957520903625
Dr. Raimi holds a Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship & CSR from the Leicester Business School, De Montfort University, Leicester, the United Kingdom, with two Master's degrees in Economics and Human Resources Management from the University of Lagos.
He was a Principal Lecturer and the Coordinator of Training at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (CED) at Yaba College of Technology. He is a trained facilitator of Entrepreneurship under the World Bank-Step B Project and has undergone special training in Enterprise Education for Employability facilitated by the Oxford Brookes University and the Pan African University, Lagos (Lagos Business School). He has coordinated several Business Plan Competitions including serving as a Mentor in the 2014 Business Plan Competition of Islamic Development Bank in Morocco. He is an alumnus of Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, the United Kingdom, has participated in the residential mentoring in 2014.
Dr. Hassan Yusuf holds a Ph.D. in Strategic Management from Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, an MBA from Bayero University, Kano, and a B.Sc. in Business Administration from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. Before joining AUN, Dr. Hassan lectured in the Department of Marketing, Federal Polytechnic, Bida.
Reported by Omorogbe Omorogiuwa