STI policy and governance in Sub-Saharan Africa: Fostering actors’ interactions in research and innovation

This study investigates science, technology, and innovation (STI) policy governance in relation to research (R&I) ecosystems Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). To understand the implications of STI on R&I, authors focus university, industry government actors; using Triple Helix National Systems Innovation approaches as analytical frameworks guide study. The identify a range factors hindering R&I actors’ interactions, including gaps responsibilities accountabilities, policymaking structural transitions, management capacity capability gaps. Based findings, they propose changes SSA, addition advancing innovative such ‘resource circulation’ context knowledge, science infrastructure scarcity. findings provide fresh insights into frameworks, fostering interactions supporting performance improvements research, systems across Africa.