In this paper I argue that the manufacturing sector still has an important role to play in Africa's development … Africa; (iii) describe the resurgence of technological start-up entrepreneurship in Africa and (iv) call for policy support …

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is impacting on the industrialization options for Africa inter alia through … paper I set out the case for why Africa should industrialize. I then explore the opportunities and threats the 4IR pose for … Africa. Threats include job-losses and the re-shoring of manufacturing to advanced economies. Among the opportunities are …

estimators and applying a battery of robustness checks. Industrialization in Africa is driven by historical legacies such as … and adoption of digital technologies are found to have an ambiguous relationship with industrialisation in Africa. The …

In this paper, we study the crowdsourcing of innovation in Africa through a data science contest on an intermediated …. Contestants were surveyed on their motivations to take part and their perceptions about AI in Africa. In total, 614 contestants … deploying AI? What are the obstacles they perceive to the greater diffusion of AI in Africa? We conclude that crowdsourcing of …

We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the … failed in Africa …

In this paper, we study the crowdsourcing of innovation in Africa through a data science contest on an intermediated …. Contestants were surveyed on their motivations to take part and their perceptions about AI in Africa. In total, 614 contestants … deploying AI? What are the obstacles they perceive to the greater diffusion of AI in Africa? We conclude that crowdsourcing of …

The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially … the best of our knowledge, that the productivity of rural non-farm enterprises in Africa has been studied in this way. …

Should developing countries focus on diversifying their export basket or should they instead specialize their exports … on export diversification and specialization, by investigating the extent of export diversification and specialization in … South Africa over the period 1962-2000 and its relationship to GDP per capita. We use a computable general equilibrium (CGE …