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- Title: Commodification of Knowledge in Developing Economy: The Case of the University of Botswana.
- Author : Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
- Release Date : January 22, 2008
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 285 KB
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Introduction The growing interest in the commercial viability of knowledge amongst academic knowledge producers is of particular significance to universities because they routinely engage in the enterprising and production of knowledge in the form of research and graduate output. Universities also seem to be strengthening their position in protecting their knowledge outputs through patenting and copyrighting. These developments are inevitably making Higher Education (HE) very important especially for Knowledge Based Economies (KBE). Because research and development is costly in the African context universities are better equipped and endowed with befitting human resource to generate knowledge for the benefit of the economy. However since universities are mandated repository and creators of knowledge, it is expected that they fully participate in the generation of knowledge. The problem however is that the resources afforded state funded universities are not sufficient to make universities in developing economies to compete globally in the provision of HE.