Le renforcement de la formation technique et l’industrialisation en Afrique subsaharienne : le cas du Gabon

The objective of this article is to analyze the relationship between the technical training, the skills and the setting up or development of various industries in a developing country by focussing on Gabon. The issues addressed are diverse and varied and more particularly, they relate to the contribution of technical training to the progress of industry and techniques, to the conditions of and needs for economic and social development and finally to innovation, a thread by which all those elements are interconnected. The study shows that the post-colonial economic processes of income and cooperation set up since the independences did not allow for a long time to further on the one hand true skills transfers and one the other hand the setting up of industries. Now, in the face of the current changes in the international environment, the technical training appears as a sufficient condition for acquiring skills essential to the appropriation of innovations and the setting up of industries.