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Kumasi University's involvement in grassroots industrial development
This article describes the twenty-year-long collaboration between academics and artisans in the Technology Consultancy Centre at Kumasi in Ghana. What began as a small campus-based consultancy group grew into a workshop and training centre at the heart of the informal sector area ofSuame Magazine and is now spreading into all of Ghana's ten regions as Intermediate Technology Transfer Units. The growth of institutions has been matched by a change among the artisans from a concentration on repair work to a growing number of manufacturing engineering businesses. These businesses
now produce machinery and wood-working equipment which was previously imported, often at high cost, and for which there is a considerable and expanding demand.
This article describes the twenty-year-long collaboration between academics and artisans in the Technology Consultancy Centre at Kumasi in Ghana. What began as a small campus-based consultancy group grew into a workshop and training centre at the heart of the informal sector area of
Suame Magazine and is now spreading into all of Ghana's ten regions as Intermediate Technology Transfer Units. The growth of institutions has been matched by a change among the artisans from a concentration on repair work to a growing number of manufacturing engineering businesses. These businesses
now produce machinery and wood-working equipment which was previously imported, often at high cost, and for which there is a considerable and expanding demand.
Suame Magazine and is now spreading into all of Ghana's ten regions as Intermediate Technology Transfer Units. The growth of institutions has been matched by a change among the artisans from a concentration on repair work to a growing number of manufacturing engineering businesses. These businesses
now produce machinery and wood-working equipment which was previously imported, often at high cost, and for which there is a considerable and expanding demand.
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