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The literature on innovation in Africa is rapidly expanding, and a
recurring thread in the emergent literature is the pervasiveness of
systemic weaknesses that inhibit the innovation process. Despite
these, firms are able to innovate in Africa. It is then logical to
ask: how do African firms manage to overcome the prevalent
constraints and learn to innovate? This book directly tackles this
question, with a view to improving our understanding of the
innovation landscape in Africa. The book brings together some of
the latest innovation research from across the African continent,
ranging from Tanzania and Ethiopia in the east to Nigeria in the
west. The chapters included in the collection adopt different but
complementary theoretical and methodological approaches to address
a rich mix of interrelated issues. These issues include the factors
that enhance or inhibit innovation in African firms, the sources of
(knowledge/information for) innovation, policy options for
overcoming constraints and facilitating firm-level innovation, the
nature and roles of brokers and intermediaries in dealing with
innovation constraints and in facilitating the innovation process
and the role of interactive learning and acquisition of embodied
technology in the innovation process. This book was originally
published as a special issue of Innovation and Development.
The literature on innovation in Africa is rapidly expanding, and a
recurring thread in the emergent literature is the pervasiveness of
systemic weaknesses that inhibit the innovation process. Despite
these, firms are able to innovate in Africa. It is then logical to
ask: how do African firms manage to overcome the prevalent
constraints and learn to innovate? This book directly tackles this
question, with a view to improving our understanding of the
innovation landscape in Africa. The book brings together some of
the latest innovation research from across the African continent,
ranging from Tanzania and Ethiopia in the east to Nigeria in the
west. The chapters included in the collection adopt different but
complementary theoretical and methodological approaches to address
a rich mix of interrelated issues. These issues include the factors
that enhance or inhibit innovation in African firms, the sources of
(knowledge/information for) innovation, policy options for
overcoming constraints and facilitating firm-level innovation, the
nature and roles of brokers and intermediaries in dealing with
innovation constraints and in facilitating the innovation process
and the role of interactive learning and acquisition of embodied
technology in the innovation process. This book was originally
published as a special issue of Innovation and Development.
This study examined the intensity of technological innovations in
the indigenous Nigeria's oil and gas servicing sub-sector and
evaluated the factors that influenced the capability of the firms
in the sub-sector to innovate. This was done with a view to making
appropriate strategic recommendations to enhance firm-level
innovativeness so as to increase indigenous participation in the
sub-sector. The study, which used primary and secondary data
sources, was based on a sample of the indigenous oil and gas
servicing firms in Nigeria. 100 firms were purposefully selected
and sampled, focusing on the period between 2001 and 2010. Four
types of questionnaire were administered in each firm. This was
supplemented with shop-floor observations and interviews. The
questionnaires elicited information on the firms' innovation
activities and the factors that influenced these. A total of 100
questionnaires were administered on heads of Production,
Engineering, Finance and Administration in the firms out of which
70% were returned and found suitable for analysis. The data so
obtained were analysed using descriptive and inferential
statistics.
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