Special Issue: Building Innovation Driven Economies in Africa
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Published: 2013
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Special Issue: Innovation Research and Economic Development in Africa
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Published: 2014
Total Pages: 128
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Author: Muchie Mammo
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Published: 2012-03-01
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781909112094
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInnovation Africa
Author: Olugbenga Adesida
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2016-03-31
Total Pages: 479
ISBN-13: 1785603108
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains a number of case studies that examine the nature and origins of emerging high-end innovation hubs in Africa. It analyses, highlights and draws lessons from some of the most promising and successful innovation cases in Africa today, exploring the key factors driving their successful emergence, growth and future prospects.
WIPO Magazine, Special issue 11/2015
Author: World Intellectual Property Organization
Publisher: WIPO
Published: 2015-11-22
Total Pages: 28
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The Informal Economy in Developing Nations
Author: Erika Kraemer-Mbula
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-10-20
Total Pages: 443
ISBN-13: 1107157544
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis pioneering study offers a conceptual model and rich empirical evidence to help researchers and policy-makers understand informal innovation in developing countries.
WIPO Magazine, Special Issue 11/2019
Author: World Intellectual Property Organization
Publisher: WIPO
Published: 2019-11-01
Total Pages: 56
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Mission-Oriented Finance for Innovation
Author: Mariana Mazzucato
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2015-03-06
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 1783484969
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe role of the state in modern capitalism has gone beyond fixing market failures. Those regions and countries that have succeeded in achieving “smart” innovation-led growth have benefited from long-term visionary “mission-oriented” policies—from putting a man on the moon to tackling societal challenges such as climate change and the wellbeing of an ageing population. This book collects the experience of different types of mission-oriented public institutions around the world, together with thought-provoking chapters from leading economists. As the global debate on deficits and debt levels continues to roar, the book offers a challenge to the conventional narrative—asking what kinds of visionary fiscal policies we need to help promote "smart” innovation-led, inclusive, and sustainable growth.
Special Economic Zones in Africa
Author: Thomas Farole
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2011-01-01
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 0821386395
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book, designed for policymakers, academics and researchers, and SEZ program practitioners, provides the first systematic and comprehensive analysis of SEZ programs in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is the result of detailed surveys and case studies conducted during 2009 in ten developing countries, including six in Sub-Saharan Africa. The book provides quantitative evidence of the performance of SEZs, and of the factors which contribute to that performance, highlighting the critical importance not just of the SEZ itself but of the wider national investment climate in which it functions. It also provides a comprehensive guide to the key policy questions that confront governments establishing SEZ programs, including: if and when to launch an SEZ program, what form of SEZ is most appropriate, and how to go about implementing it. Among the most important findings from the study that is stressed in the book is the shift from traditional enclave models of zones to SEZs that are integrated ? with national trade and industrial strategies, with core trade and social infrastructure, with domestic suppliers, and with local labor markets.Although the book focuses primarily on the experience of Sub-Saharan Africa, its lessons will be applicable to developing countries around the world."
Firm-Level Innovation In Africa
Author: Abiodun Egbetokun
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-04-29
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 0429892497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe literature on innovation in Africa is rapidly expanding, and a recurring thread in the emergent literature is the pervasiveness of systemic weaknesses that inhibit the innovation process. Despite these, firms are able to innovate in Africa. It is then logical to ask: how do African firms manage to overcome the prevalent constraints and learn to innovate? This book directly tackles this question, with a view to improving our understanding of the innovation landscape in Africa. The book brings together some of the latest innovation research from across the African continent, ranging from Tanzania and Ethiopia in the east to Nigeria in the west. The chapters included in the collection adopt different but complementary theoretical and methodological approaches to address a rich mix of interrelated issues. These issues include the factors that enhance or inhibit innovation in African firms, the sources of (knowledge/information for) innovation, policy options for overcoming constraints and facilitating firm-level innovation, the nature and roles of brokers and intermediaries in dealing with innovation constraints and in facilitating the innovation process and the role of interactive learning and acquisition of embodied technology in the innovation process. This book was originally published as a special issue of Innovation and Development.
