Innovation, Regional Integration, and Development in Africa Rethinking Theories, Institutions, and Policies /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Oloruntoba, Samuel Ojo (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Muchie, Mammo (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development,
• Subjects: Africa-Politics and government.; Economic development.; Regionalism.; Development economics.; Economic policy.; African Politics.; Regional Development.; Development Economics.; Economic Policy.

This book discusses the role of innovation and regional integration in economic development in Africa. Over the past five decades, post-colonial African countries have struggled to break loose from the trap of poverty and underdevelopment through the adoption of various development strategies at reg...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1:Innovation and Regional Integration: Reframing the Debates on Innovation and Integrated African Development
• Chapter 2: Towards a Unified Theory of Pan-African Innovation Systems and Integrated Development
• Chapter 3: Exploring Theory and Praxis for Socioeconomic Development
• Chapter 4: Innovating the Political Economy of Pan Africanism: Imagination and Renaissance
• Chapter 5: Innovating Policy Systems of Innovation for Regional Integration
• Chapter 6: Transnational Simultaneity: an Emergent African Perspective of Regional Integration
• Chapter 7: Knowledge Valorisation for Inclusive Innovation and Integrated African Development
• Chapter 8: Regional Integration Prospects, Challenges and Opportunities in Africa: A Case of Tripartite Free Trade Area
• Chapter 9: The Regionalism-Innovation Nexus: The ECOWAS Experience
• Chapter 10: Institutional Capacity and Regional Integration: Reflections on the Composition and Powers of the ECOWAS Parliament
• Chapter 11: Innovation and Development in West Africa
• Chapter 12: The Role of Cloud-Based Surveillance Systems in Regional Integration in ECOWAS
• Chapter 13: Higher Education, R&D, and Challenges in National Innovation System Building of Angola
• Chapter 14: Regional Integration and Knowledge Flows: Effects on Manufacturing Productivity in southern Africa
• Chapter 15: Regionalism and Failure of the African Manufacturing Sector: Technology Transfer Policies as a Missing Link
• Chapter 16: Intra-African Trade and Innovation in the Agricultural Sector
• Chapter 17: Unemployment and Informal Entrepreneurship in Zimbabwe
• Chapter 18: Analysis of Agricultural Innovation and Decision Making among Maize Farming Household in Nigeria: A Gender Approach
• Chapter 19: Social Innovations as a Response to Municipal Failures in Africa
• Chapter 20: Science and Technological Capability Building in Global South: Comparative Study of India and South Africa
• Chapter 21: Conclusion: Setting Research Agenda for Innovation and Integrated African Development.