Innovation Systems and Innovative Clusters in Africa
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Total Pages | : 716 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Technological innovations |
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Total Pages | : 716 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Technological innovations |
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Author | : Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka |
Publisher | : UNU |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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This book examines the incidence and role of clusters as a viable and increasingly important form of industrial organization in Africa. It presents a series of theoretically grounded case studies that analyze clusters in different industrial sectors and at different levels of economic development. The overall aim is to improve understanding of how local clusters can be transformed into local systems of innovation and how local clusters can be better connected to global actors. The authors draw out implications for policy and practice and provide guidance to governments, private sector associations, and non-governmental organizations.--Publisher's description.
Author | : OECD |
Publisher | : OECD Publishing |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2001-06-11 |
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ISBN | : 9264193383 |
Policies to stimulate innovation at national and local levels must both build on and contribute to the dynamics of innovative clusters. This book presents a series of papers written by policy makers and academic experts in the field, that demonstrate why and how this can be done.
Author | : Douglas Zhihua Zeng |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0821373072 |
Africa is on the move, demonstrating in recent years a significant potential for economic growth. Although the region still faces many challenges, it is also generating pockets of economic vitality in the form of enterprise clusters that are contributing to national, regional, and local productivity. Through case examples from Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda, this book provides an understanding of how these dynamic enterprise clusters were formed and have evolved, and how knowledge, human capital, and technology have contributed to their success.
Author | : Alfred Spielkamp |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 1998 |
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Author | : Mammo Muchie |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2013-01-29 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 079830345X |
The most popularised concept in the economics of innovation literature has been the national system of innovation (NSI). It was in the late 1980s that the concept that Frederik List coined as the National Political Economy of Production took off again with different thinkers writing about the peculiarities and distinctions of the Japanese, American, British, German, East Asian Tigers and other varieties of system construction. Freeman defines National System of Innovation as the network of institutions in the public and private sectors whose activities and interactions initiate, import, modify and diff use new technologies. Richard Nelson defines it as a set of institutions whose interactions determine the innovative performance of national firms. Lundvall defines the system of innovation as the elements and relationships which interact in the production, diffusion and use of new and economically useful knowledge and are either located within or rooted inside the borders of a nation state. The normative assumption is that those nations that succeeded in building economic strength relied on the science, engineering, technology and innovation capability that made them to achieve an innovation advantage to put them ahead in the world, acquiring national or regional economic leadership as the case may be depending on what level of analyses is selected to look at particular failure, success or progress they made. In this volume we have a glimpse of how in different African economies from Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria specific cases have been taken to explore how systems of innovation is evolving.
Author | : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
Publisher | : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
This book shows how technology policy makers in OECD countries are making practical use of the concept of clusters and suggests how government policies to foster innovation might best be refocused.
Author | : Abiodun Egbetokun |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2020-04-29 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0429892497 |
The 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.
Author | : Charlie Karlsson |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 485 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1848445075 |
'This volume is an important step in furthering the discussion about how cluster strategies work and the implications for theory and policy.' – Jennifer Clark, Review of Regional Studies The role of innovations and clusters has increasingly dominated local and regional development policies in recent decades. This authoritative and accessible Handbook considers important aspects of high-tech clusters, analyses insightful cluster case studies, and provides a number of recommendations for cluster policies. The chapters in this Handbook are written by international experts in the field and present evidence of the scope, effects, and potential of clusters as concentrations of innovative activities. The authors emphasize that cluster development is not the only option for local and regional development and argue that for cluster policies to be worthwhile, supporting policies in fields such as education, R&D, transportation, and communication infrastructure must accompany most cluster policies. Furthermore, several contributions stress that clusters often develop along a life cycle that may end with decline and even the disappearance of clusters. Consequently, this Handbook provides the basis for improving both research on innovation and clusters and the formulation and implementation of cluster policies. Furnishing the reader with rich, comprehensive discussion of innovations and clusters, this Handbook will be an essential source for researchers and academics in the field, as well as policymakers, planners and specialists, development experts and agencies, and consultants.
Author | : OECD |
Publisher | : OECD Publishing |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2010-08-12 |
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ISBN | : 926408892X |
Innovation drives long-term economic growth. This book examines the role of innovation in developing countries, with a focus on Africa.