Introduction to a special issue on ‘Building innovation capabilities for sustainable industrialization in Africa: status and prospects’

IF 1.4 Q3 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Innovation and Development Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI:10.1080/2157930X.2021.1928988

Abdi Yuya Ahmad, C. Osei‐Amponsah, K. Kebede

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ABSTRACT The special issue of Innovation and Development on ‘Building innovation capabilities for sustainable industrialization in Africa … ’, presents a series of articles on building local technological capabilities and their implications for formulating and implementing policies in Africa’s industrialization agenda. Despite the high potential of Africa in advancing its industrialization mainly in resource-intensive sectors, progress remains low. Empirical evidence on the reasons for this problem is inadequate and patchy. Articles in this special issue address the gaps by delving into empirical issues ranging from sector-specific innovation capabilities to national systems of innovation. Based on first-hand data collected from South Africa, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, and Rwanda, the articles unravelled key structural and systemic problems behind Africa’s dismal progress in developing technological and industrial capabilities. Together, these articles advance our understanding of how to improve the effectiveness of innovations, industrial policies, and coordination for inclusive and sustainable industrialization.

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“建设非洲可持续工业化的创新能力:现状与前景”特刊导言

《创新与发展》关于“为非洲可持续工业化建设创新能力”的特刊，提出了一系列关于建设当地技术能力及其对制定和实施非洲工业化议程政策的影响的文章。尽管非洲在主要在资源密集型部门推进工业化方面具有很大潜力，但进展仍然很低。关于这一问题的原因的经验证据是不充分和不完整的。本期特刊的文章通过深入研究从特定部门的创新能力到国家创新体系的经验问题来解决这些差距。根据从南非、埃塞俄比亚、加纳、尼日利亚、肯尼亚和卢旺达收集的第一手数据，这些文章揭示了非洲在发展技术和工业能力方面进展缓慢背后的关键结构性和系统性问题。这些文章共同促进了我们对如何提高创新、产业政策和协调的有效性以实现包容性和可持续工业化的理解。

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Innovation and Development Social Sciences-Cultural Studies

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期刊介绍： conomic development and growth depend as much on social innovations as on technological advances. However, the discourse has often been confined to technological innovations in the industrial sector, with insufficient attention being paid to institutional and organisational change and to the informal sector which in some countries in the South plays a significant role. Innovation and Development is an interdisciplinary journal that adopts a broad approach to the study of innovation, in all sectors of the economy and sections of society, furthering understanding of the multidimensional process of innovation and development. It provides a forum for the discussion of issues pertaining to innovation, development and their interaction, both in the developed and developing world, with the aim of encouraging sustainable and inclusive growth. The journal encourages articles that approach the problem broadly in line with innovation system perspective focusing on the evolutionary and institutional structure of innovation and development. This focus cuts across the disciplines of Economics, Sociology, Political Science, Science and Technology Policy, Geography and Development Practice. In a section entitled Innovation in Practice, the journal includes short reports on innovative experiments with proven development impact with a view to encouraging scholars to undertake systematic inquiries on such experiments. Brief abstracts of degree awarded PhD theses in the broad area of concern for the journal and brief notes which highlight innovative ways of using internet resources and new databases or software are also published.