LAWRENCE EDET NSA - St Clements University

eported, which informed human resources flight, as a lot of
scientists left the RTOs to join the public or private sector.
The depth of Government involvement further eroded the
spirit of business approach to R&D as research was believed
not to be an investment with expected returns. This
perception of R & D as a consumption rather than an
investment killed the spirit of competitiveness among RTOs.
Consequently, most RTOs merely exist and look forward to
Government subventions. The meagre financial resources
from this source are often not judiciously expended as
peripheral issues were given greater attention than the core
research issues. Often, funds were expended thinly on a wide
research area without achieving the desired results. Another
critical area desiring elucidation is the inability of RTOs to
effectively and sustainably disseminate information on their
activities and research findings to the public. The society
often times is ignorant of what the research and technology
organizations are doing. They are also not aware of any
proprietary technology developed. The RTOs, on the other
hand, argue that given their level of funding, it is not always
possible for them to embark on information dissemination at
high level.
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