Abstract:
In the face of limited national innovation and competitiveness, it was
imperative to examine research collaboration between academic researchers
and knowledge users for attainment of a knowledge-based economy in Ghana.
The study followed an explanatory sequential mixed methods approach to
analyse survey data from proportionate stratified samples of academics from
the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics, social sciences and arts
and interview data from 11 key informants, from two public universities in
Ghana. Through descriptive analysis and Kruskal-Wallis tests, it was
established that involvement of academics in research collaboration was low.
There was no statistically significant difference, at the p < .05 level, in the
number of research collaboration across the three academic disciplines.
Although the condition points to the existence of a wider knowledge filter, it
presents the nation with the opportunity to institute the necessary measures to
step up the uptake and commercialisation of research findings.
