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UNINA9910786245903321 |
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Creating systems of innovation in Africa [[electronic resource] ] : country case studies / / edited by Mammon Muchie and Angathevar Baskaran |
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Oxford, : Africa Institute of South Africa, 2013 |
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1 online resource (238 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BaskaranAngathevar |
MuchieMammo |
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Economic development - Africa |
Developing countries |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Preface -- Contributing authors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Research typology and knowledge needs for development in Africa -- Chapter 2. Ghana's innovation system: what's wrong with it and why -- Chapter 3. Labour productivity, exports and skills formation: comparing foreign and local firms in Kenyan manufacturing -- Chapter 4. Innovative approaches to industrial utilisation of Cassava in a developing economy -- Chapter 5. Enhancing innovation in developing country systems: a synthesis of case studies and lessons from Uganda -- Chapter 6. Innovation financing, industrial production and the growth of Nigeria's non-oil exports -- Chapter 7. A firm-level analysis of technological externality of foreign direct investment in South Africa -- Chapter 8. A consensual approach to domain-partitioning of a cancer data sample space: lessons from Tanzania -- Chapter 9. Remote sensing and geological investigation of Okemesi area, Southerwestern Nigeria -- Chapter 10. Conclusion. |
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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 |
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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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UNINA9910786084603321 |
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Life course perspectives on military service / / edited by Janet M. Wilmoth and Andrew S. London |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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1-136-16195-3 |
1-283-94202-X |
0-203-07974-4 |
1-136-16196-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (401 p.) |
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Routledge advances in sociology ; ; 83 |
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LondonAndrew S |
WilmothJanet M (Janet May) |
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Sociology, Military - United States |
Veterans - United States - Social conditions |
Life cycle, Human |
Life change events |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Life-Course Perspectives on Military Service; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface; Foreword; 1 Life-Course Perspectives on Military Service: An Introduction; 2 The Military as a Transforming Influence: Integration into or Isolation from Normal Adult Roles?; 3 Women's Lives in Wartime: The American Civil War and World War II; 4 Race-Ethnicity and Immigration Status in the U.S. Military; 5 Military Service and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Lives; 6 Military Service as a Pathway to Early Socioeconomic Achievement for Disadvantaged Groups |
7 Labor Market Outcomes among Veterans and Military Spouses8 The Best Years of Our Lives: Military Service and Family Relationships-A Life-Course Perspective; 9 Military Employment and Spatial Mobility across the Life Course; 10 A Matter of Life and Death Military Service and Health; 11 Military Service, Social Policy, and Later-Life Financial and Health Security; 12 United States Military Services' Sponsorship of Life-Course Research: Past, Present, and Future; 13 Methodological Problems in Determining the Consequences of Military Service |
14 Setting an Agenda for Future Research on Military Service and the Life CourseReferences; Contributors; Index |
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This edited volume provides a comprehensive and critical review of what we know about military service and the life course, what we don't know, and what we need to do to better understand the role of military service in shaping people's lives. It demonstrates that the military, like colleges and prisons, is a key social institution that engages individuals in early adulthood and shapes processes of cumulative (dis)advantage over the life course. The chapters provide topical synthesizes of the vast but diffuse research literatures on military service and the life course, while the volume as |
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