Handbook of Innovation Indicators and Measurement

Handbook of Innovation Indicators and Measurement
Author: Fred Gault
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2023-09-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1800883021

Providing nuanced insight into key areas of innovation studies, this erudite second edition acknowledges the significance of innovation within the informal economy. It contributes to the broader scholarly discourse on innovation indicators and measurement, exploring the nature and rate of recent developments within the field.

Entrepreneurship, Technology Commercialisation, and Innovation Policy in Africa

Entrepreneurship, Technology Commercialisation, and Innovation Policy in Africa
Author: Chux Daniels
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2021-01-04
Genre: Science
ISBN: 303058240X

This book provides a comprehensive overview of role of entrepreneurship, technology commercialisation and innovation policy for the achievement of economic development and prosperity in African societies. It adopts a broad innovation systems approach. The book examines entrepreneurship, innovation, and technology commercialisation alongside context-specific factors associated with them. It also provides an interdisciplinary perspective, by discussing the above disciplines in a connected way. This book is presented in three distinct parts. It starts by discussing entrepreneurship and the state of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Africa. It then moves on to present technology commercialisation in Africa, before finally discussing the future directions for entrepreneurship, technology commercialisation and innovation policy. This broad picture provided in the book enables the reader to grasp the relevant messages, whilst the detailed analysis applies world-class theories and frameworks to deepen the readers understanding of key concepts and issues examined.