African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development 

About: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development is an academic journal published by Taylor & Francis. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Agriculture & Computer science. It has an ISSN identifier of 2042-1338. Over the lifetime, 978 publications have been published receiving 9295 citations. The journal is also known as: AJSTID.

Systems of innovation perspectives and challenges

Abstract: The national system of innovation approach has attracted both academics and policy makers. There has been different emphasis laid by those who both originated the concept and developed it further for policy learning applications. From the firm level to the global innovation networks, the varieties and differences in system of innovation functions, activities and factors continue to attract debate amongst the leading scholars. The main challenge is to translate the system of innovation from a conceptual framework to theory that feeds a concrete practice. By assessing closely the existing work on systems of innovation and by going beyond the current literature, I have formulated the functions, constituents, activities, factors and boundaries that the system of innovation provides for better policy formulation and application in practice.

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Abstract: There has been a growing debate in the West, recently, about whether we are witnessing the phenomenon of technological unemployment caused by increasing automation in all spheres of economic activity, a form of unemployment that is distinct from cyclical unemployment, or structural unemployment caused by trade and globalisation, or even that existing in the form of a reserve army.

Innovation as an interactive process: From user-producer interaction to national systems of innovation

Abstract: "Innovation is seen as an outcome of a collision between technological opportunities and user needs. The focus is upon the interaction between producers and users of innovation. One outcome of the analysis is a more realistic understanding of markets and vertical integration than the ones offered by neoclassical economics and transaction economics. Another outcome is the conceptualization of national innovation systems as an aggregate framework for processes of interactive learning at the micro-level. Together these concepts go beyond the neo-classical actors of firms and consumers and point to the need to take into account economic structure, institutions and policies for learning.

Lions on the Move : The Progress and Potential of African Economies, McKinsey Global Institute : book review

Abstract: The recent publication by the McKinsey Global Institute has confronted these seemingly unwelcome and unhealthy viewpoints by promoting an alternative approach in recognising that just as there are Tigers in Asia, the Lions in Africa are on the move. The symbolic message of optimism created by the metaphoric characterisation of a number of African economies as lions on the move is therefore extremely positive. There is much to be gained in being hopeful and optimistic.