@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2020.0514, TITLE={Internalization of knowledge in Senegal: the example of the peanut industry through the SONACOS oil mill}, AUTHOR={Vanessa Casadella, }, JOURNAL={Technology and Innovation}, VOLUME={5}, NUMBER={Issue 3
}, YEAR={2020}, URL={https://openscience.fr/Internalization-of-knowledge-in-Senegal-the-example-of-the-peanut-industry}, DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2020.0514}, ISSN={2399-8571}, ABSTRACT={Technology transfer has been emphasized in the literature of the 1980s-1990s to emphasize the importance of the ability to use, disseminate and appropriate foreign knowledge. The process of internalization of knowledge, both conducted by local firms and different territories (nations, regions), is, in a developing country, to create capacity and learning opportunities to impulse a National Learning Dynamics. Public decision-makers must then experiment with new tools related to the implementation of innovation policies while perceiving the existence of blocking mechanisms and proposing new solutions. As part of the peanut sector in Senegal, the SONACOS company, nationalized in 2016 but in the process of privatization in 2018, has opted for a process of internalization of knowledge through an informal rehabilitation of technical and tacit knowledge. Learning abilities are present, despite non-existent R & D, but they cannot sit on long-term learning opportunities. The company and the sector cannot develop in the long term (although privatization changes governance) and governments have only introduced fragile measures to build capacity, but no desire has emerged to create better opportunities for learning.}}