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Challenges of African Transformation : Exploring Through Innovation Approach /

A brief overview of the African economic picture reveals a paradox where the continent that has rich mineral resources, nearly a billion people and a land mass which includes the sizes of China, USA, India, Western Europe, Argentina together and still is larger than the sum of these regions is in an...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Project Muse
Otros Autores: Baskaran, Angathevar, Muchie, Mammo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Publicado: Pretoria, South Africa : Insitute for Economic Research on Innovation, 2012
Colección:UPCC book collections on Project Muse.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a Preface -- Contributing authors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Science and technology indicators in Africa: historical development and challenges -- Chapter 2. Building systems for innovation 'Take off' in African economies -- Chapter 3. Innovation in Africa, toward a realistic vision -- Chapter 4. Innovations systems in renewable natural resource management and sustainable agriculture: a literature review -- Chapter 5. Low-income countries and innovation studies: a review of recent literature -- Chapter 6. Human capital, R&D and endogenous occupational choice -- Chapter 7. Building systems of innovation in an African setting: the cluster initiative development approach -- Chapter 8. Are north-south technological spillovers substantial? A dynamic panel data model estimation -- Chapter 9. Where are the flags of our father? Rethinking linkages between social policies and innovation policies -- Chapter 10. Design theory of Letanta -- Chapter 11. Conclusion. 
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