1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451858503321

Titolo

Industrial clusters and innovation systems in Africa [[electronic resource] ] : institutions, markets, and policy / / edited by Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka and Dorothy McCormick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : United Nations University Press, c2007

ISBN

92-808-7106-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Oyelaran-OyeyinkaOyebanji

McCormickDorothy <1941->

Disciplina

338.8/7

Soggetti

Industrial clusters - Africa

Technological innovations - Economic aspects - Africa

Industrial location - Africa

Regional planning - Africa

Electronic books.

Africa Economic policy 21st century Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""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""