Challenges of African transformation : exploring through innovation approach / edited by Mammo Muchie and Angathevar Baskaran.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Muchie, Mammo, editor.

Baskaran, Angathevar, editor.

Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technological innovations--Africa.

Technological innovations.

Research and development projects--Africa.

Research and development projects.

Economic development--Africa.

Economic development.

Africa.

Physical Description:

xvii, 208 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Pretoria, South Africa : Africa Institute of South Africa : Institute for Economic Research on Innovation, 2012.

Summary:

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 unacceptable state of being an object of aid, debt and loans despite the vast resources both known and yet to be expolored in it for the whole post-colonial period.

Contents:

Science and technology indicators in Africa : historical development and challenges / Frank K. Teng-Zeng

Building systems for innovation take off in African economies / Abdelkader Djeflat

Innovation in Africa : toward a realistic vision / Bengt-Åke Lundvall

Innovations systems in renewable natural resource management and sustainable agriculture : a literature review / Laxmi Prasad Pant and Helen Hambly-Odame

Low-income countries and innovation studies : a review of recent literature / Jo Lorentzen

Human capital, R & D and endogenous occupational choice / Loesse Jacques Esso

Building systems of innovation in an African setting : the cluster initiative development approach / Bitrina D. Diyamett

Are north-south technological spillovers substantial? : a dynamic panel data model estimation / Watu Wamae

Where are the flags of our fathers? : rethinking linkages between social policies and innovation policies / Rebecca Hanlin and Judith Sutz

Design theory of letanta / Vusi Moloi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.

ISBN:

0798303484

OCLC:

827694385

Publisher Number:

99963389533