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(d) Higher Education System (a ? b+c)
(e) Research Institutes and Centres (over 300)
(f) The formal STI System infrastructure (d ? e).
The following indices were used to analyse data acquired through a detailed
survey, to identify the clusters of STIs in the six zones.
• Higher (tertiary institution);
• Course content (science and technology based);
• Number of higher degree holders (Ph.D.s) and innovators;
• Science and Technology activities (R&D results);
• Science
and
Technology-based
infrastructure
(laboratories,
workshops, test
facilities);
• Innovations (prototypes and products);
• Availability of infrastructure (roads, airports); and
• Proximity to local markets.
The emerging picture was used to articulate a proposal to establish S&T Parks
and was presented to the Federal Government and adopted.
On this basis, the following areas have been proposed to host the government
facilitated Zonal Science and Technology Parks and Technopolis:
S/N
Zone
State
City
1.
North East
Adamawa
Yola
2.
North West
Sokoto
Sokoto
3.
North Central
Benue
Makurdi
4.
South East
Abia
Aba
5.
South West
Osun
Ife
6.
South South
Rivers
Port Harcourt
7
Federal Capital Territory
FCT
Abuja
His Excellency, the Governor of Benue State attended the 2007 World Tech-
nopolis Association Workshop [where the present work was originally presented],
as a mark of his administration's commitment to the success of the National S&T
Parks programmes in Nigeria
5 Implementation of the Zonal STPs Programme
The Zonal S&T Parks programme commenced in 2006. The implementation
process included:
• Technical surveys especially to isolate the system SWOT;
• Sensitisation programmes for the state governors and other stakeholders;
• Zonal conferences of the ST&Is in the zones;
• Identification of Parks' sectoral functions;
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