  This study examines the impact of technological leapfrogging on manufacturing
value-added in SSA. The study utilizes secondary data spanning 1990 to 2018.
The data is analyzed using cross-sectional autoregressive distributed lags
(CS-ARDL) and cross-sectional distributed lags (CS-DL) techniques. The study
found that technological leapfrogging is a positive driver of manufacturing
value-added in SSA. This implies that SSA can copy the foreign technologies and
adapt them for domestic uses, rather than going through the evolutionary
process of the old technologies that are relatively less efficient. If the
governments of SSA could reinforce their absorptive capacity and beef up
productivity through proper utilization of the existing technology. The
productive activities of the domestic firms will stir new innovations and
discoveries that will eventually translate into indigenous technology
