An Analysis of the Main Issues for Successful Technology Transfer

Women have traditionally played an important role in Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises as owners managers and workers. In Benin shea almond processing and trading mostly carried out by women is one of the greatest opportunities in terms of wealth creation in rural and urban areas particularly for women and a source of currency for the country. The sale of shea butter provides women with money in order to assure the well-being of their family. During the last twenty years technologies have been allocated to processors of shea almond notably women by successive governments technical and financial partners in order to increase shea butter production and develop shea almond channel. Unfortunately the channel remains at a low stage of development in term of production level quality diversification trading technical and management capacity. So the present work aims to identify analyse and discuss the issues for successful technology transfer from stakeholder group’s perceptions in this sector. The originality of this dissertation is that issues are identified and ranked both according to technology transfer steps and stakeholder groups.