Research Catalog

Title

Creating systems of innovation in Africa : country case studies / edited by Mammo Munchie and Angathevar Baskaran.

Publication

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

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Additional Authors

• Muchie, Mammo
• Baskaran, Angathevar

Description

xv, 214 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Summary

"The most popularised concept in the economics of innovation literature has been the national system of innovation (NSI). It was in the late 1980s that the concept that Frederik List coined as the 'National Political Economy of Production' took off again with different thinkers writing about the peculiarities and distinctions of the Japanese, American, British, German, East Asian Tigers and other varieties of system construction. Freeman defines National System of Innovation as 'the network of institutions in the public and private sectors whose activities and interactions initiate, import, modify and diff use new technologies.' Richard Nelson defines it as 'a set of institutions whose interactions determine the innovative performance of national firms. Lundvall defines the system of innovation as the 'elements and relationships which interact in the production, diffusion and use of new and economically useful knowledge and are either located within or rooted inside the borders of a nation state.' The normative assumption is that those nations that succeeded in building economic strength relied on the science, engineering, technology and innovation capability that made them to achieve an innovation advantage to put them ahead in the world, acquiring national or regional economic leadership as the case may be depending on what level of analyses is selected to look at particular failure, success or progress they made"--Page 4 of cover.

Subjects

• Africa > Economic policy > Case studies
• Technology transfer > Africa > Case studies
• Technological innovations > Economic aspects > Africa > Case studies
• Africa > Economic conditions > 1960- > Case studies

Note

• "Allborg University, Denmark."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

JBE 13-1151

ISBN

• 0798303476
• 9780798303477

OCLC

827694389

Title

Creating systems of innovation in Africa : country case studies / edited by Mammo Munchie and Angathevar Baskaran.

Imprint

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

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Muchie, Mammo, editor.

Baskaran, Angathevar, editor.

Research Call Number

JBE 13-1151