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Industrial clusters and innovation systems in Africa : institutions, markets, and policy / edited by Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka and Dorothy McCormick.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industrial clusters--Africa--Congresses.
- Industrial clusters.
- Technological innovations--Economic aspects--Africa--Congresses.
- Technological innovations.
- Industrial location--Africa--Congresses.
- Industrial location.
- Regional planning--Africa--Congresses.
- Regional planning.
- Africa--Economic policy--21st century--Congresses.
- Africa.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (338 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : United Nations University Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is the first book to examine the role of clusters as an increasingly important form of industrial organization in Africa. (A cluster is generally defined as a geographical concentration of related industries.) The book 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 of this book is to improve our understanding of how local clusters can be transformed into local systems of innovation and how they 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 nongovernmental organizations. The book reaches two broad conclusions. First, the case studies show that any theoretical framework for analyzing innovation in clusters needs to closely reflect the role of policy, the state, the types of institutions, and the nature and distribution of power. Second, the findings illustrate the limitations of trying to transfer best practices onto programs in a different context: policies can draw on others' experience, but they must be specifically designed for local realities.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Figures""; ""Tables""; ""Contributors""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""1 Introduction: Clusters and innovation systems in Africa""; ""2 Industrialization through cluster upgrading: Theoretical perspectives""; ""3 From clusters to innovation systems in traditional industries""; ""4 Industrializing Kenya: Building the productive capacity of micro and small enterprise clusters""; ""5 Small and micro enterprise clusters in Tanzania: Can they generate industrial dynamism?""; ""6 Learning in local systems and global links: The Otigba computer hardware cluster in Nigeria""
- ""7 Power and firms� learning in the Egyptian furniture cluster of Domiatt""""8 Learning to change: Why the fish processing clusters in Uganda learned to upgrade""; ""9 The Durban Auto Cluster: Global competition, collective efficiency and local development""; ""10 Global markets and local responses: The changing institutions in the Lake Victoria fish cluster""; ""11 Government support and enabling environment for inter-firm cluster cooperation: Policy lessons from South Africa""; ""12 Institutional support for collective ICT learning: Cluster development in Kenya and Ghana""
- ""13 Conclusion and policy implications""""Index""
- Notes:
- Papers from an author's workshop funded by UNU-INTECH (now UNU-MERIT) and held in Maastricht, the Netherlands at the end of July 2004.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 92-808-7106-4
- OCLC:
- 226911960
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