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Innovation for sustainability
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ISBN: 0798303468 0798303565 0798303549 9780798303569 9781299680043 1299680046 9780798303545 9780798303460 Year: 2012 Publisher: Pretoria, South Africa

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The innovation system theory has to deal with climate change as it generates the intellectual tools to promote development. A unified innovation system theory that integrates the eradication of threats to nature with the promotion of development is critically important to advance an original pedigree and trajectory of epistemology. Africa must learn and appreciate the costs to itself from the way Europe industrialised. It can neither follow nor imitate the European pattern of industrialisation. It has to include in its own development agenda both the meeting of social needs and choosing a path of development that would not bring ecological harm in the process. The African innovation system has to evolve in a nature protecting, rather than hurting, system; in addition, social needs must be met rather than exacerbating the social inequalities path of development.


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Creating systems of innovation in Africa
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ISBN: 0798303476 079830345X 9780798303453 9781299680074 1299680070 9780798303477 Year: 2012 Publisher: Pretoria, South Africa

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"The most popularised concept in the economics of innovation literature has been the national system of innovation (NSI). It was in the late 1980's 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.

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Business & Economics --- Economic History --- Economic development --- Developing countries. --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Technological innovations --- Technology transfer --- Economic aspects --- Emerging nations --- Fourth World --- Global South --- LDC's --- Least developed countries --- Less developed countries --- Newly industrialized countries --- Newly industrializing countries --- NICs (Newly industrialized countries) --- Third World --- Underdeveloped areas --- Underdeveloped countries --- Technological transfer --- Transfer of technology --- Diffusion of innovations --- Inventions --- Research, Industrial --- Technology and international relations --- Foreign licensing agreements --- Technological forecasting --- Technology --- Breakthroughs, Technological --- Innovations, Industrial --- Innovations, Technological --- Technical innovations --- Technological breakthroughs --- Technological change --- Creative ability in technology --- Domestication of technology --- Innovation relay centers --- International cooperation --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Africa --- Economic conditions --- E-books --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Technology transfer. --- Economic policy. --- Economic history. --- Economic aspects. --- Africa. --- History, Economic --- Economic nationalism --- Economic planning --- National planning --- State planning --- Planning --- National security --- Social policy


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Challenges of African Transformation
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ISBN: 0798303484 0798303506 0798303492 9780798303507 9780798303484 9780798303491 9780798303484 9780798303491 Year: 2013 Publisher: [Oxford]

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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 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.

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