Science and Technology Policy in Africa
Title | Science and Technology Policy in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Jeggan Colley Senghor |
Publisher | Africa World Press |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780865439139 |
Science and Technology in Africa
Title | Science and Technology in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | John W. Forje |
Publisher | Longman Publishing Group |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
Technology Policy and Practice in Africa
Title | Technology Policy and Practice in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | International Development Research Centre (Canada) |
Publisher | IDRC |
Pages | 393 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Industrial policy |
ISBN | 0889367906 |
Technology Policy and Practice in Africa
What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean from Africa?
Title | What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean from Africa? PDF eBook |
Author | Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2017-06-16 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 0262533901 |
Explorations of science, technology, and innovation in Africa not as the product of “technology transfer” from elsewhere but as the working of African knowledge. In the STI literature, Africa has often been regarded as a recipient of science, technology, and innovation rather than a maker of them. In this book, scholars from a range of disciplines show that STI in Africa is not merely the product of “technology transfer” from elsewhere but the working of African knowledge. Their contributions focus on African ways of looking, meaning-making, and creating. The chapter authors see Africans as intellectual agents whose perspectives constitute authoritative knowledge and whose strategic deployment of both endogenous and inbound things represents an African-centered notion of STI. “Things do not (always) mean the same from everywhere,” observes Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, the volume's editor. Western, colonialist definitions of STI are not universalizable. The contributors discuss topics that include the trivialization of indigenous knowledge under colonialism; the creative labor of chimurenga, the transformation of everyday surroundings into military infrastructure; the role of enslaved Africans in America as innovators and synthesizers; the African ethos of “fixing”; the constitutive appropriation that makes mobile technologies African; and an African innovation strategy that builds on domestic capacities. The contributions describe an Africa that is creative, technological, and scientific, showing that African STI is the latest iteration of a long process of accumulative, multicultural knowledge production. Contributors Geri Augusto, Shadreck Chirikure, Chux Daniels, Ron Eglash, Ellen Foster, Garrick E. Louis, D. A. Masolo, Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, Neda Nazemi, Toluwalogo Odumosu, Katrien Pype, Scott Remer
Science and Technology Policy for Development
Title | Science and Technology Policy for Development PDF eBook |
Author | Louk Box |
Publisher | Anthem Press |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1843312271 |
An inquiry into how social relations make for successful science and technology policies.
Failing to Compete
Title | Failing to Compete PDF eBook |
Author | Sanjaya Lall |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2002-10-29 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1781950571 |
Despite years of liberalization, African manufacturing is conspicuously unable to compete in the global market. Its exports are minuscule, its response to competition is weak, technical efficiency is low and there are few signs of technological dynamism.
Science, Technology and Innovation Policies for Inclusive Growth in Africa
Title | Science, Technology and Innovation Policies for Inclusive Growth in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Reuben A. Alabi |
Publisher | LIT Verlag Münster |
Pages | 555 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Africa |
ISBN | 3643910428 |
The volume analyses how to make Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Policies relevant for inclusive growth strategies in Africa.The base for a transformative STI policy is to link the STI policies to Africa's economic transformation policies. In a first part the general issues of introducing effective STI policies are presented. In a second part country case studies highlight the new approach. Cases such as Sudan and Nigeria are analysed, as these two countries have a long history of STI development; because of different history, size and structure they need to move in different directions towards a coherent STI policy for inclusive growth.