Introduction: African economic transformation in the digital age / Mammo Muchie & Angathevar Baskaran -- ICTs and economic transformation in Africa : a synthesis / Olu Ajakaiye & Samuel Wangwe -- Innovation system approach towards economic transformation in the digital age / Angathevar Baskaran...

Introduction: Building sectoral level competence & innovation systems in Africa / Mammo Muchie & Angathevar Baskaran -- System divergence or coherence : the variations of innovation system from the local to the global / Angathevar Baskaran & Mammo Muchie -- Technological capability, innovation...

"Innovations in the African context, especially sub-Saharan Africa, which has a large informal economy cannot be measured with the conventional metrics employed in developed economies. Hence, it is important to build capacity to develop appropriate systems of innovation indicators for the...

In this paper an attempt will be made to identify what has been explicitly recognisedas central and peripheral within the systems of innovation concept; the inclusion orexclusion of the factors that are important in understanding the political economy ofinnovation systems; the themes, issues and...

A brief overview of the African economic picture reveals a paradox where the continent that has rich mineral resources, nearly a billion people and a land mass which includes the sizes of China, USA, India, Western Europe, Argentina together larger than the sum of these regions is in an...