study holds important lessons for late industrializing countries entering into a knowledge intensive sector. …

knowledge in African industry. First, we examined modes of learning proxied by training in small and medium firms. We found that … elementary learning mechanisms such as apprenticeship, resulting in the creation of tacit knowledge, are the dominant forms of … learning. While knowledge externalities tend to benefit larger firms, small enterprises with little absorptive capacity are …

innovation framework. …

asks how institutions shape the system of innovation (SI). The context of underdevelopment exhibits distinct system … different contexts, it introduces the idea of a System of Learning Innovation in Development (SLID) that emphasizes individual … and organizational competence building. The differences between “Advanced” Systems of Innovation (ASI) and two types of …

. For instance, the intensity of adoption of e-business technologies in the skill-and-knowledge-intensive electrical and …

inter-organizational interactions in the country's biotechnological system of innovation, using public research institutes … contacts between various agents in the system of innovation, including firms, universities, traditional medicine practitioners …

conditions the emergent systems of innovation in Africa. These effectively determine the development trajectory of the region. We … advance the notion of dynamic and non-dynamic systems of innovation, the latter describing the African condition. In doing … literature on evolutionary theory and systems of innovation. We provide evidence of the colonial origins of skewed schooling …

universities was expected to promote greater firm-level technical innovation resulting in greater output and product quality but …