Challenges of African Transformation : Exploring Through Innovation Approach /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Other Authors: Baskaran, Angathevar, Muchie, Mammo
Format: Electronic eBook
Published: Pretoria, South Africa : Insitute for Economic Research on Innovation, 2012
Series:UPCC book collections on Project Muse.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Economic development > Africa.
Research and development projects > Africa.
Technological innovations > Africa.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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