"The contributions in this edited book reflect analytically and critically on how innovation and development in Africa like the rest of the Global South has been evolving differently from its origin in the developed world and the East Asian Tiger economies."

"The contributions in this edited book underscore the critical importance of solar energy in African energy supply and the importance of developing specific and efficient technological capabilities to harness solar energy. They also demonstrate the important role of solar energy in the...

Introduction: African economic transformation in the digital age / Mammo Muchie & Angathevar Baskaran -- ICTs and economic transformation in Africa : a synthesis / Olu Ajakaiye & Samuel Wangwe -- Innovation system approach towards economic transformation in the digital age / Angathevar Baskaran...

Introduction: Building sectoral level competence & innovation systems in Africa / Mammo Muchie & Angathevar Baskaran -- System divergence or coherence : the variations of innovation system from the local to the global / Angathevar Baskaran & Mammo Muchie -- Technological capability, innovation...

"Innovations in the African context, especially sub-Saharan Africa, which has a large informal economy cannot be measured with the conventional metrics employed in developed economies. Hence, it is important to build capacity to develop appropriate systems of innovation indicators for the...