Title:	Innovation, Regional Integration, and Development in Africa
Authors:	Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba Mammo Muchie Diery Seck Juliet U. Elu Yaw Nyarko
Keywords:	Development in Africa
Issue Date:	2019
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	Innovation has been very critical and central to the establishment of modern industrial societies. The transformation of former agrarian societies of Europe, United States of America in nineteenth and twentieth centuries and of recent, Asia was largely due to the development of National Systems of Innovation. In order to facilitate development, the State in these countries formulated public policies that prioritised investment in research and development with focus on innovation. In the United States of America for instance, investment in technology was initially focused on building military capability. Although such investments did not have commercial orientation as the overriding objective, they laid the foundation for the future industrial and technological innovations that the country has witnessed over the past two centuries (Moweri and Rosenberg 1993). Innovation has been defined as the implementation of a new or significantly improved product (good or service), or process, a new marketing method, or a new organisational method in business practices, workplace organisation or external relations (OECD 2
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/46166
ISBN:	978-3-319-92180-8
Appears in Collections:	Regional and Local Development Studies

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