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• Shopping for co-investing partners and anchor personalities;
• Quality space marketing and partnership with the private sector;
• Securing land and developing base infrastructure; and
• Parks' development consolidation and policy implementation.
The programme implementation experiences since 2006 has revealed a number
of challenges including:
• Intense and costly sensitization required to maintain Government's keen interest
and investments;
• Resistance to the required synergy and partnerships by related sectors/institutions
to minimise duplication, rivalry and enhance effectiveness of investments;
• Weak government policy implementation on incentives such as import substi-
tution, local content drive and consumable goods import deletion programmes;
and
• The inability of the economy to attract non-oil/gas technology based Foreign
Direct Investments (FDIs).
These suggest the need for a modified approach towards STPs to evolve in
Nigeria becomes apparent.
6 Reverse Engineered S&T Parks
In view of the need to facilitate some quick wins, a close appraisal of the earlier
identified clusters interestingly revealed areas where existing innovation centres
can be re-planned and reversed engineered into clusters that would enable the
immediate take off of S&T Parks. The following are only examples:
6.1 Sheda RIs Cluster (Agricultural S&T Park)
Sheda is a district in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). In this region, numerous
innovation institutions exist. These include:
(a) The Sheda Science and Technology Complex (SESTCO) that houses three of
the nation's advanced laboratories in Biotechnology, Physics, Mathematics
and Nuclear engineering. Furthermore, the complex hosts two biotechnology
spring-off companies that manufacture sickle cell anaemia drugs and HIV test
kits;
(b) The Agricultural Research Stations;
(c) The University of Abuja;
(d) The National Mathematical Centre; and
(e) The National Education Research and Development Council.
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