Research Fellow at the African Institute for Science Policy and Innovation (AISPI), Obafemi Awolowo University, in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. PhD in Technology Management from Obafemi Awolowo University. African regional winner of the Emerging Economies Doctoral Students Award by the Production and Operations Management Society in 2014. Prior to joining AISPI, Dr. Jegede was a Research Officer at the National Centre for Technology Management (NACETEM), an Agency of the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology in Nigeria, from 2010 to March 2016. At NACETEM, he participated in the review of Nigeria’s National Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Policy as well as in the development of Nigeria’s STI Indicators. These STI indicators have been used for planning, Jegede is a member of the Scientific Board of the Global Network for the Economics of Learning, Innovation and Competence Building Systems (Globelics) and a researcher with the African Network for the Economics of Learning, Innovation and Competence Building Systems (Africalics). Dr Jegede has published numerous articles on STI policy and Innovation Systems. He joined the Open African Innovation Research (OpenAIR) network in 2016 as a case study researcher, analyzing innovation in the informal sector.