Ist Industrialisierung nur ein Nebenprodukt ökonomischer Entwicklung oder der Schlüssel für wirtschaftlichen Erfolg? Welche Besonderheiten weist das verarbeitende Gewerbe auf und besitzen diese auch empirische Gültigkeit in den afrikanischen Volkswirtschaften? Ist ein...

Mobile remittances have a high development potential as they hold the promise of providing quick, easy and cheap money transfers. In Africa mobile phone usage has increased sharply and mobile banking providers are extending their services, enabling greater opportunities for mobile remittances....

This study focuses on innovation in a cluster of informal shoemaking firms in Ethiopia - namely the Mercato footwear cluster. It examines how differently those firms are embedded in networks and how heterogeneous they are in absorptive capacity, and how this heterogeneity affects their...

Knowledge brokering has been explored in the innovation literature to understand how different innovation tasks are organised toward technological development. This paper reflects upon the role of different organisations as knowledge brokers in regulatory policy processes towards putting...