This book tells Africa’s history of Africa and therefore offers some significant contribution to existing knowledge about Africa. It aims to provide a more balanced perspective of the nature of each interacting continent. The emphasis on the sophistication of the African side during pre-colonial times in this politico-historical commentary is subsequently reinforced when examining the nature of traditional, African politico-social and economic systems. As such, the narrative avoids the usual misrepresentations which give the impression that African-European interaction is a history of European actions in an Africa generally devoid of anything similar to the cultures, institutions and abilities of Europe. And that indigenous Africans had no real active role vis-à-vis an assertive, dominating Europe in historical times. Addressing these narratives with evidence based counter perspectives is of particular benefit for our current educational, social and political contexts.

The purpose of this ground-breaking book is to inspire the principle of innovation as a permeating program for Europe's societies. After demonstrating early success from the realization of a single market and single currency, the European cooperation process is falling short of delivering much needed results in policy areas which are key for sustainable economic growth and employment, notably innovation policy. Written by authors involved in an independent tripartite High Level Group on EU innovation policy management, Revolutionising EU Innovation Policy analyses the principle causes and offers solutions in order to increase both efficacy and democratic accountability. Presenting the benefits of an overarching innovation policy, the authors draw attention to issues that have been overlooked by research and technology based approaches to innovation, for example culture and education. Importantly, the book examines the interplay between EU innovation policies and the demands of businesses, enterprises, and social and political organizations to fully deploy their innovation potential.

This book analyses the effects of technological development, innovation, entrepreneurship and governance in middle income countries, such as Turkey, in detail. How to best practise innovation and entrepreneurship, which many researchers and policy makers believe to be the main drivers of economic growth and development, has become a fiercely-debated topic. The contributors to this volume consider economic, social and institutional dimensions of innovative thinking, entrepreneurial activity and governance, and investigate both theoretically and empirically how these factors should contribute to the uptake of new technology and the global performance of middle income countries. By offering country specific examples, and by comparing high income and middle income countries, this edited collection presents a comprehensive analysis of innovation, entrepreneurial growth and development outside the vacuum of high income economies, which has traditionally received substantially more scholarly attention.

Rethinking the Future of Europe has brought together three contrasting collections of contributions: the incrementalist perspective concerning the step by step development of Europe, the more radical reform/restructuring approach to the future of Europe, and a view of Europe from the outside.

Rethinking the Future of Europe has brought together three contrasting collections of contributions: the incrementalist perspective concerning the step by step development of Europe, the more radical reform/restructuring approach to the future of Europe, and a view of Europe from the outside.