LEADER 04299nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910973596003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-7983-0345-X 035 $a(CKB)2670000000340357 035 $a(EBL)1164440 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000938522 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11583080 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000938522 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10920051 035 $a(PQKB)11662552 035 $a(OCoLC)840839317 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27019 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1164440 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10677896 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL499257 035 $a(OCoLC)841907745 035 $a(PPN)254806821 035 $a(Perlego)2102046 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1164440 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000340357 100 $a20130413d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aCreating systems of innovation in Africa $ecountry case studies /$fedited by Mammon Muchie and Angathevar Baskaran 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aOxford $cAfrica Institute of South Africa$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (238 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a0-7983-0347-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aPreface -- 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. 330 $a"The most popularised concept in the economics of innovation literature has been the national system of innovation (NSI). It was in the late 1980's that the concept that Frederik List coined as the 'National Political Economy of Production' took off again with different thinkers writing about the peculiarities and distinctions of the Japanese, American, British, German, East Asian Tigers and other varieties of system construction. Freeman defines National System of Innovation as 'the network of institutions in the public and private sectors whose activities and interactions initiate, import, modify and diff use new technologies.' Richard Nelson defines it as 'a set of institutions whose interactions determine the innovative performance of national firms. Lundvall defines the system of innovation as the 'elements and relationships which interact in the production, diffusion and use of new and economically useful knowledge and are either located within or rooted inside the borders of a nation state.' The normative assumption is that those nations that succeeded in building economic strength relied on the science, engineering, technology and innovation capability that made them to achieve an innovation advantage to put them ahead in the world, acquiring national or regional economic leadership as the case may be depending on what level of analyses is selected to look at particular failure, success or progress they made"--Page 4 of cover. 410 0$aUPCC book collections on Project Muse. 606 $aEconomic development$zAfrica 606 $aDeveloping countries 615 0$aEconomic development 615 0$aDeveloping countries. 676 $a338.064 701 $aBaskaran$b Angathevar$01612893 701 $aMuchie$b Mammo$01612894 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910973596003321 996 $aCreating systems of innovation in Africa$94366380 997 $aUNINA LEADER 04070nam 2201009z- 450 001 9910557757303321 005 20220111 035 $a(CKB)5400000000045789 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/76864 035 $a(oapen)doab76864 035 $a(EXLCZ)995400000000045789 100 $a20202201d2021 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aUrban Ecosystem Services II: Toward a Sustainable Future 210 $aBasel, Switzerland$cMDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute$d2021 215 $a1 online resource (195 p.) 311 08$a3-0365-1838-X 311 08$a3-0365-1837-1 330 $aThe school of thought surrounding the urban ecosystem has increasingly become in vogue among researchers worldwide. Since half of the world's population lives in cities, urban ecosystem services have become essential to human health and wellbeing. Rapid urban growth has forced sustainable urban developers to rethink important steps by updating and, to some degree, recreating the human-ecosystem service linkage.Assessing as well as estimating the losses of ecosystem services can denote the essential effects of urbanization and increasingly indicate where cities fall short. This second book on urban ecosystem services contains 11 thoroughly refereed contributions published within the Special Issue "Urban Ecosystem Services II: Toward a Sustainable Future". The book addresses topics such as cultural ecosystem services, green infrastructure, urban trees, urban green spaces, and more. 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