Firm-Level Innovation in Africa: Overcoming Limits and Constraints

ISBN-13: 9781138601611 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 144 str.

Abiodun Egbetokun; Richmond Atta-Ankomah; Oluseye Jegede

Opis

This book asks how African firms innovate, shedding light on the sources and nature of innovation on the continent while providing, through sound empirical evidence, policy options for overcoming constraints and facilitating innovation on the continent. This book was originally published as a special issue of Innovation and Development.

Spis treści

Introduction – Firm-level innovation in Africa: overcoming limits and constraints  1. Bridging gaps in innovation systems for small-scale agricultural activities in sub-Saharan Africa: brokers wanted!  2. Technology transfer and agricultural mechanization in Tanzania: institutional adjustments to accommodate emerging economy innovations  3. Absorptive capacity and product innovation: new evidence from Nigeria  4. Persistence of innovation and knowledge flows in Africa: an empirical investigation  5. Effect of knowledge sources on firm-level innovation in Tanzania  6. Embodied technology transfer and learning by exporting in the Ethiopian manufacturing sector