Developing Countries: Research or Education?

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Developing Countries: Facilitating Access to Education or Enhancing Research?

Traditional Universities often generate a large part of their research fields related to their local scope, and consequently, the main beneficiaries are local companies and institutions, as well as local society in general.

In high-income economies, research undoubtedly brings huge benefits to companies and society. However, these benefits are not so obvious in low and middle-income countries.

Taking into account that only 2.5 of the world's population have access to higher education:

What is more important for emerging and developing countries, facilitating access to education at affordable prices or developing research?

According to the Asian Development Bank, many scholars believe that the priority in low and middle-income Asian countries should be to facilitate the access to higher education rather than to develop research because these economies are often based on imitation and acquisition of technology or knowledge abroad.

The trends in Africa point in the same direction.

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The main markets of EENI will be the low and middle-income countries, and therefore EENI should have a responsibility to these countries as well as to their local community.

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As already mentioned, EENI will opt for a fully compatible mixed model, based on quality of research rather than quantity, promoting:

Research in the developed countries
Access to Higher Education at affordable prices and research in the least developed countries

EENI will encourage, wherever possible, the participation of PhD and scholars from low and middle-income countries as part of their commitment to these countries.

The Director of the Professional Doctorate in African Business at U-EENI PhD Geneviève Barro (Burkina Faso)

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Research on Traditional Knowledge at EENI

EENI Global Business School will devote particular attention to traditional knowledge research in developing countries, as a key component in their sustainable socio-economic development and poverty alleviation (Rahman, 2000), and especially in the African continent, whose culture has been transmitted from generation to generation mainly by oral means.

“In many emerging and developing economies, protection, promotion, complementarity and integration of traditional knowledge with scientific knowledge are essential objectives of science promotion policies. Some countries are partial to the term “indigenous knowledge” (UNESCO).

Solution to the problem: Research-Education Synergy

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