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Labor mobility and innovation in Africa
Mbaye, Linguère Mously; Okara, Assi; Tani, Massimiliano - 2022
We develop a theoretical model to investigate whether short-term mobility differentially affects innovation in product …, and the United Nations. We find that labor mobility positively affects innovation: on average, a 10% increase in the flow … products/services or process, supporting the use of labor mobility as an effective mechanism to diffuse productive knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012805095
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Labor Mobility and Innovation in Africa
Mbaye, Linguère; Okara, Assi; Tani, Massimiliano - 2022
We develop a theoretical model to investigate whether short-term mobility differentially affects innovation in product …, and the United Nations. We find that labor mobility positively affects innovation: on average, a 10% increase in the flow … products/services or process, supporting the use of labor mobility as an effective mechanism to diffuse productive knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030837
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Entrepreneurship, Education and the Fourth Industrial Revolution in Africa
Naudé, Wim - 2017
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is impacting on the industrialization options for Africa inter alia through three interrelated sets of technologies, namely automation, additive manufacturing and the Industrial Internet. In this paper I set out the case for why Africa should industrialize....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952621
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Three Varieties of Africa's Industrial Future
Naudé, Wim - 2019
variety, technological innovation is changing the nature of manufacturing and is turning services into the main sector for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861275
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Entrepreneurship, education and the fourth industrial revolution in Africa
Naudé, Wim - 2017
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is impacting on the industrialization options for Africa inter alia through three interrelated sets of technologies, namely automation, additive manufacturing and the Industrial Internet. In this paper I set out the case for why Africa should industrialize....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011694809
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Three varieties of Africa's industrial future
Naudé, Wim - 2019
variety, technological innovation is changing the nature of manufacturing and is turning services into the main sector for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012122074
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Africa's industrialization prospects : a fresh look
Naudé, Wim; Tregenna, Fiona - 2023
This paper identifies the determinants of industrialization in 18 African countries, 1965 to 2018, using various estimators and applying a battery of robustness checks. Industrialization in Africa is driven by historical legacies such as colonialism; geographical factors such as rainfall and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249268
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Africa's Industrialization Prospects : A Fresh Look
Naudé, Wim; Tregenna, Fiona - 2023
This paper identifies the determinants of industrialization in 18 African countries, 1965 to 2018, using various estimators and applying a battery of robustness checks. Industrialization in Africa is driven by historical legacies such as colonialism; geographical factors such as rainfall and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014351490
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Crowdsourcing artificial intelligence in Africa: findings from a machine learning contest
Naudé, Wim; Bray, Amy; Lee, Celina - 2021
In this paper, we study the crowdsourcing of innovation in Africa through a data science contest on an intermediated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012589259
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Labour mobility and innovation in Africa
Mbaye, Linguère Mously; Okara, Assi; Tani, Massimiliano - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013164172