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Industrial clusters and innovation systems in Africa : institutions, markets, and policy /
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. T...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tokyo ; New York :
United Nations University Press,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : clusters and innovation systems in Africa / Dorothy McCormick and Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka
- Industrialization through cluster upgrading : theoretical perspectives / Dorothy McCormick
- From clusters to innovation systems in traditional industries / Lynn K. Mytelka
- Industrializing Kenya : building the productive capacity of micro and small enterprise clusters / Dorothy McCormick and Mary Njeri Kinyanjui
- Small and micro enterprise clusters in Tanzania : can they generate industrial dynamism? / Flora Mndeme Musonda
- Learning in local systems and global links : the Otigba computer hardware cluster in Nigeria / Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka
- Power and firms' learning in the Egyptian furniture cluster of Domiatt / Samah El-Shahat
- Learning to change : why the fish processing clusters in Uganda learned to upgrade / Rose Kiggundu
- The Durban auto cluster : global competition, collective efficiency and local development / Jochen Lorentzen, Glen Robbins, and Justin Barnes
- Global markets and local responses : the changing institutions in the Lake Victoria fish cluster / Dorothy McCormick and Winnie V. Mitullah
- Government support and enabling environment for inter-firm cluster cooperation : policy lessons from South Africa / Mike Morris and Glen Robbins
- Institutional support for collective ICT learning : cluster development in Kenya and Ghana / Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Kaushalesh Lal and Catherine Nyaki Adeya
- Conclusion and policy implications / Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka and Dorothy McCormick.