Driving Nigeria’s fastest growing innovation.
Our mandate ensures that technology adoption, licensing, and local content development align with national goals for sustainable growth.
About
More than just an Agency of the Federal Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology,
NOTAP was established in response to Nigeria’s need to facilitate the emergence of a strong STI system and equally saddled with the responsibility of tracking the inflow of foreign technology in the country, as well as promoting indigenous technology, research and development results from various institutions in Nigeria.
Vision & mission
VISION:
To move Nigeria from the periphery to the dominant centre of global industrial power structure within the shortest possible time and make her a major global powerhouse of the 21st century through an efficient technology acquisition strategy and a vibrant innovation and R&D commercialisation programme.
MISSION:
To move Nigeria from the periphery to the dominant centre of global industrial power structure within the shortest possible time and make her a major global powerhouse of the 21st century through an efficient technology acquisition strategy and a vibrant innovation and R&D commercialisation programme.
Functions
Functions of NOTAP
The encouragement of a more efficient process for the identification and selection of foreign technology.
The development of the negotiation skills of Nigerians with a view to ensuring the acquirement of the best contractual terms and conditions by Nigerian parties entering into any contract or agreement for the transfer of foreign technology. The provision of a more efficient process for the adaptation of imported technology.
The registration of all contracts or agreements having effect in Nigeria on the date of the coming into force of this Act, and of all contracts and agreements hereafter entered into, for the transfer of foreign technology to Nigerian parties.