This paper investigates the effects of access to high-speed internet on innovation and entrepreneurship in Africa. The … identification strategy exploits the staggered arrival of submarine internet cables to the coast of Africa and the subsequent rollout … on innovation at the firm level, with availability of digital skills within the firm playing a key role in the internet-innovation …

are not left behind. Thus, this study examines the influence of internet usage and innovation on human development in 15 … ECOWAS countries. Using the fixed and random effects panel data techniques, the study finds that Internet usage, innovation …Internet usage and the sporadic rise in the level of innovations have been major drivers of human progress in the last …