Industrial clusters and innovation systems in Africa
Subtitle: institutions, markets, and policy
By: edited by Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka and Dorothy McCormick.
Contributors: Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Oyebanji.; McCormick, Dorothy, 1941-
Publisher: United Nations University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9789280811377
Subjects: Industrial clusters -- Africa -- Congresses; Technological innovation -- Economic aspects -- Africa -- Congresses; Industrial location -- Africa -- Congresses; Regional planning. -- Africa -- Congresses; Africa -- Economic policy -- 21st century -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: This book examines the incidence and role of clusters as a viable and increasingly important form of industrial organization in Africa. It presents a series of theoretically grounded case studies that analyze clusters in different industrial sectors and at different levels of economic development. The overall aim is to improve understanding of how local clusters can be transformed into local systems of innovation and how local clusters can be better connected to global actors. The authors draw out implications for policy and practice and provide guidance to governments, private sector associations, and non-governmental organizations.--Publisher's description.
Notes: Papers from an author's workshop funded by UNU-INTECH (now UNU-MERIT) and held in Maastricht, the Netherlands at the end of July 2004.

Includes index.