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Service Innovation

Service Innovation

This book looks at service innovation service industries and innovation performance in services. It seeks a broader explanation and understanding of services service innovation and its performance and the future of service innovation in different service industries. In addition it discusses service domination in the big economies around the world and how that was created and supported by service innovation. The book will be useful for academics interested in service innovation as well as practitioners in the service business.

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Dubai - The Epicenter of Modern Innovation A Guide to Implementing Innovation Strategies

Dubai - The Epicenter of Modern Innovation A Guide to Implementing Innovation Strategies

International and global in nature Dubai - The Epicenter of Modern Innovation: A Guide to Implementing Innovation Strategies provides a roadmap for the successful implementation of innovation for companies and businesses currently working in the Middle East the UAE and more specifically Dubai. The discussion focuses on implementing sustained innovation success within several industry segments while identifying past current and future innovation-related successes that are leading to Dubai's rise as the epicenter of innovation in the Middle East and most notably the world. The authors share key innovation leadership philosophies from Sheikh Mohammed bin Al Maktoum recognized business leaders and the highest levels in the UAE. This book:Features key leadership and innovation insights relative from the highest levels of government including Sheikh Mohammed bin Al Maktoum and multiple UAE ministry officials. Focuses on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) most specifically Dubai and the Nation’s preparation for hosting World Expo 2020. Contains numerous examples of past present and future innovations in Dubai. Provides an easy to implement innovation process management methodology which has been tested to work in various businesses and organizations. Authored by individuals who have 'on the ground' experience living and working with the chief architects of Dubai's innovation vision and strategy. This book will attempt to take the reader through the construct of this new innovative revolution particularly in Dubai and provide a bird’s-eye view of how it came about. Most notably the discussion will walk the reader through key milestones instrumental to Dubai’s success—such as the present and past leadership culture strategy and strategic vision. In addition the discussion will present an industry agnostic agile and progressive approach to building and leading successful innovation teams through to a successful project out-come and the attributes of good innovation leadership. | Dubai - The Epicenter of Modern Innovation A Guide to Implementing Innovation Strategies

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Contextual Innovation Management Adapting Innovation Processes to Different Situations

Contextual Innovation Management Adapting Innovation Processes to Different Situations

Innovation has a pivotal role for companies in attaining business survival but making an organization innovative is not straightforward. By determining contextual factors managers can help decide how to employ a portfolio of innovation management processes. This book explores how contingency influence the management of innovation. Taking the perspective of innovation managers the authors focus on the decision-making process to demonstrate that different approaches are required depending on the business context. In breaking the process into three levels (culture industry and company) the book helps choose an optimal innovative approach. With references to real-world innovation cases and organizations this book will prove useful reading for students and researchers in the field of innovation studies and management. | Contextual Innovation Management Adapting Innovation Processes to Different Situations

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Innovation A Systems Approach

Innovation A Systems Approach

It is a systems world. This concise book uses a systems-based approach to show how innovation is ubiquitous in all facets of endeavors including business industry government and academia. The systems approach facilitates process design evaluation justification and integration. This book explicitly highlights the crucial role of integration in any innovation project. It presents conceptual and operational definitions of innovation. Emphasis is placed on the context related to the theme of systems thinking. Features Covers the intrinsic basis for innovation from a systems perspective Describes the use of the DEJI systems model for actuating innovation Highlights the role of humans in the innovation loop Provides guidance for innovation project management Presents a case example of linking quality and innovation Introduces the Umbrella Theory of Innovation | Innovation A Systems Approach

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Innovation Support in Latin America and Europe Theory Practice and Policy in Innovation and Innovation Systems

Innovation Support in Latin America and Europe Theory Practice and Policy in Innovation and Innovation Systems

Latin America represents one of the most dynamic business regions in the world. Innovation Support in Latin America and Europe explores the need for training innovation professionals identifies appropriate strategies and best practice for ensuring its delivery and reflects the outcomes of a major innovation and knowledge transfer project. Academics business professionals policy makers and trade representatives all contribute to review the literature and existing practices of innovation and explore the often misunderstood and contested terrain that surrounds innovation theory policy and practice. In this book you will find a comparative insight into Latin American and European approaches to innovation management and innovation in practice and an examination of how innovative ideas are exploited for a specifically Latin American context. With chapters which offer insights from both academics and practitioners the text offers a refreshing contemporary and trans-national perspective and a clear concise and enriching discussion on the interplay between research policy and practice. Innovation Support in Latin America and Europe will appeal to academics and researchers higher level students policy makers and business leaders particularly those with any interest in Latin America. | Innovation Support in Latin America and Europe Theory Practice and Policy in Innovation and Innovation Systems

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Sports Innovation Management

Sports Innovation Management

This book introduces readers to emerging issues of sport innovation. The book focuses on the role of innovation in the sports context and how we can leverage opportunities that arise from networks and optimize resources by identifying where they are most effective. It helps to identify the conditions and procedures that emergent business ventures need to be formed. The book is a useful reference for sports organizations athletes and government organizations promoting the use of innovation to generate competitive advantage in the global marketplace. | Sports Innovation Management

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Managing Sustainable Innovation

Managing Sustainable Innovation

This book is an insightful text looking at sustainable innovation and the emerging fourth sector i. e. hybrid organizations through an interdisciplinary approach. The book illuminates what hybrid organizations are and how they generate new ways of creating blended value to secure the well-being of future generations and preservation of ecological services. The book also discusses how sustainable innovation may offer creative solutions to societal issues the sharing economy and the circular economy. This book will appeal to those taking MBA and EMBA programmes and those with an interest in creating sustainable business and innovation solutions. | Managing Sustainable Innovation

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Sustainability Technology and Innovation 4.0

Sustainability Technology and Innovation 4.0

Sustainability Technology and Innovation 4. 0 is a holistic perception and analysis of innovation at the level of public organisations innovation in industry and innovation in HR. Its chapters collectively present a thesis that Innovation 4. 0 signals a technological revolution that has the opportunity to prevent environmental degradation and in particular to stop climate warming the effects of which may disrupt the process of sustainable development. Uniquely this edited book offers a comprehensive and multi-faceted examination of Innovation 4. 0 fulfilling methodical empirical and utilitarian goals. The methodological objective is to present tools that allow the identification analysis and assessment of the relationship between Innovation 4. 0 and inspiration that will carry society towards a new economic and social order. Its empirical aim is to enable the analysis and evaluation of the role of public organisations innovation in industry and innovation in HR in the process of building sustainable development of the global environment. The book’s utilitarian goal is a recommendation for global organisations of Innovation 4. 0 as an instrument to stimulate an innovative economy. This is a high-level research book aimed at postgraduates MBA students researchers and academics from business colleges and universities and may also provide a valuable strategic perspective for business executives.

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Innovation for Development in Africa

Innovation for Development in Africa

This book uncovers the many ways in which innovations and innovation system development policies have become crucial to development policy formation across Africa. As new instruments actors and tools emerge in development cooperation the role of innovation in the societal development of developing countries needs to be addressed fully. This book delves into subjects as diverse as the changing development policies between the Global North and South the role of innovation in international aid and development policies the role of public private and non-governmental sectors universities and other development actors and the potential for inclusive innovation in local communities. In particular the book asks who benefits from innovation-focussed development policies and if and how practical innovation instruments include the global poor. Written in an accessible and engaging style the book includes a range of discussion questions and further reading suggestions to suit a range of readers from students right through to policy makers and practitioners or anyone else looking for an introduction to innovation policies and development in Africa. | Innovation for Development in Africa

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The Framework for Innovation A Guide to the Body of Innovation Knowledge

The Framework for Innovation A Guide to the Body of Innovation Knowledge

The innovation infrastructure and master plan described in this book offers a detailed and comprehensive approach to one of the most difficult and challenging problems facing entrepreneurs involved in innovation at any scale enterprise: the problem of how to govern your organization’s innovation initiatives in the middle of turbulent change. Progress in any field requires the development of a framework a structure that organizes the accumulating knowledge enables people to master it and unifies the key discoveries into a set of principles that makes them understandable and actionable. For starters successful innovation requires an integrated design process beginning with integration in the design of the enterprise the design of the product along with the design and implementation of new technologies. Such an integrated design effort requires good collaboration and management of the design framework and should be supported by efficient knowledge management techniques and tools; If innovation is to help a business grow and improve its competitiveness it is also important to plan the innovation carefully. This book provides a holistic multidisciplinary framework that will enable your organization and its leaders to take a strategic approach to innovation. The framework combines non-traditional creative approaches to business innovation with conventional strategy development models. The framework model brings together perspectives from many complementary disciplines: the non-traditional approaches to innovation found in the business creativity movement; multiple-source strategy consulting; the new product development perspective of many leading industrial design firms; qualitative consumer/customer research; future-based research found in think tanks and traditional scenario planning; and organizational development (OD) practices that examine the effectiveness of an organization’s culture processes and structure. Though some ideas may just fall from the sky or come out of the blue an organization should also have a strategic vision of how the business and the enterprise will successfully develop. It should not just wait for the innovation to arrive arbitrarily but rather proactively plan for innovation incorporating market trends the competitive landscape new technology availability and changes in customer preferences and trends in order to create a flexible in-house innovation process. Such an enterprise will also pro-actively manage the knowledge supply chain that supports innovation as outlined in this book #7 of Management Handbook for Results series. The framework outlined in this handbook consists of a well-integrated cohesive set of practices that inspires imaginative innovation teams to look beyond the obvious and explore a broad range of possibilities to identify significant opportunities and make informed decisions about the most promising paths to pursue. The goal is to create a shared vision for growth along with defining pragmatic action plans that bridge from the future back to the present while attempting to align the organization around the requirements for success. | The Framework for Innovation A Guide to the Body of Innovation Knowledge

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Accounting Innovation and Inter-Organisational Relationships

Accounting Innovation and Inter-Organisational Relationships

Successful innovation is a true challenge and especially when today’s companies are intertwined in close inter-organisational relationships and networks with e. g. customers and suppliers. Research has indicated that accounting can play important roles in such innovation processes but there is little in-depth systematic knowledge about this issue. Accounting Innovation and Inter-Organisational Relationships gathers leading researchers from all around the world to argue for the importance of more systematic knowledge about accounting innovation and inter-organisational relationships. Accounting Innovation and Inter-Organisational Relationships thus becomes an important source for researchers and practitioners interested in accounting and inter-organisational relationships as well as the related disciplines of management marketing innovation and strategy.

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Assessing Technology and Innovation Policies

Assessing Technology and Innovation Policies

This volume brings together eminent international scholars to discuss and analyze regional and national technology and innovation policies from an economic assessment or economic impacts perspective. The analysis covers policies relevant to countries in Europe and Asia and the United States. Not only might this volume initiate further study of technology and innovation policies on a country-by-country basis but also it might open doors for comparative policy analysis. This book was originally published as a special issue of Economics of Innovation and New Technology. | Assessing Technology and Innovation Policies

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Diversities of Innovation

Diversities of Innovation

Innovation is often understood exclusively in terms of the economy but it is definitely a result of human labour and ingenuity and of the relationships among individuals and social groups. Some societies and governmental structures are clearly more successful than others: they act in divergent ways fostering innovation and employment and they utilize varied opportunities from different fields of research from new products and from their educational systems. Thus innovation varies fundamentally between countries and public policies – in matters such as energy technology environmental technologies facing climate change and advancing conditions of life – can be determined according to different societies’ needs. This volume brings together a range of world experts to compare countries and continents and help develop a fuller picture of innovations and their social basis. It will be of interest to researchers in regional studies and economics as well as labour unions practitioners and policy makers. | Diversities of Innovation

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Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation

Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation

Sustainable entrepreneurship has attracted growing attention in both scholarly and practitioner circles. Focusing on generating social environmental and business value the notion has been raised more recently to address the contribution of entrepreneurial activities to sustainable economic and social development. Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation builds on a theoretical framework that addresses related topics via a combination of insights from sustainability policy managerial strategic innovation and institutional perspectives. Providing empirical casework as well as a conceptual and theoretical framework the book takes a global interdisciplinary approach to the emergent field of sustainable entrepreneurship. The book highlights elements of sustainable entrepreneurship which have a societal impact as well as regional relevance and related aspects of innovation are also presented. Definitional issues are further elaborated in order to encompass the main inter-connected fields of study sustainable entrepreneurship and social innovation. This book is an important resource for academic researchers and postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students in the fields of entrepreneurship innovation and sustainability.

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Corporate Innovation Disruptive Thinking in Organizations

Corporate Innovation Disruptive Thinking in Organizations

Effectiveness is the underlying theme for this introduction to disruptive innovation. The book tells the manager or student what they need to know in transforming the thinking in an organization to an innovative mindset in the twenty-first century. Corporate Innovation explains the four stages of the innovation process and demonstrates how to improve skills in the innovation process and unleash personal innovative abilities. This book also presents ways to assess the organization’s attitudes toward innovation providing insights into how to diagnose creative and innovative performance problems in the organization. Beginning with an overview of concepts involved with an innovative organization today this book explores the fundamental aspects of the individual the organization and the implementation. An I-Organization is a combination of: I-Skills developed within individuals I-Design thinking functions needed to shape innovation I-Teams that emerge from the HR perspective of structuring the appropriate climate I-Solution needed to provide a foundation for implementing any innovative ideas. Essential reading for students of corporate innovation corporate ventures corporate strategy or human resources this book also speaks to the specific needs of active managers charged with the expectation of enhancing the innovative prowess of their organization. Instructors’ outlines lecture slides and a test bank round out the ancillary online resources for this title. | Corporate Innovation Disruptive Thinking in Organizations

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Medical Innovation Science technology and practice

Medical Innovation Science technology and practice

This book brings together a collection of empirical case studies featuring a wide spectrum of medical innovation. While there is no unique pathway to successful medical innovation recurring and distinctive features can be observed across different areas of clinical practice. This book examines why medical practice develops so unevenly across and within areas of disease and how this relates to the underlying conditions of innovation across areas of practice. The contributions contained in this volume adopt a dynamic perspective on medical innovation based on the notion that scientific understanding technology and clinical practice co-evolve along the co-ordinated search for solutions to medical problems. The chapters follow an historical approach to emphasise that the advancement of medical know-how is a contested nuanced process and that it involves a variety of knowledge bases whose evolutionary paths are rooted in the contexts in which they emerge. This book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners concerned with medical innovation management studies and the economics of innovation. Chapter 5 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3. 0 license. https://s3-us-west-2. amazonaws. com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138860346_oachapter5. pdf | Medical Innovation Science technology and practice

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Voices of Innovation Fulfilling the Promise of Information Technology in Healthcare

Voices of Innovation Fulfilling the Promise of Information Technology in Healthcare

We can all point to random examples of innovation inside of healthcare information technology but few repeatable processes exist that make innovation more routine than happenstance. How do you create and sustain a culture of innovation? What are the best practices you can refine and embed as part of your organization's DNA? What are the potential outcomes for robust healthcare transformation when we get this innovation mystery solved? Loaded with numerous case studies and stories of successful innovation projects this book helps the reader understand how to leverage innovation to help fulfill the promise of healthcare information technology in enabling superior business and clinical outcomes. | Voices of Innovation Fulfilling the Promise of Information Technology in Healthcare

GBP 31.99
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Eco-Innovation and Sustainability Management

Eco-Innovation and Sustainability Management

Sustainability is a phenomenon that must be pursued in a complex system of interrelated elements of business society and ecology. It is important to gain an understanding of these elements the interplay between them and the behavior of the system. This book explores the business-societal-and-ecological system in which sustainable innovation has to be envisioned conceptualized realized and improved. Author Bart Bossink offers insight into the systematic coherence of drivers of eco-innovation and sustainability utilizing a three-part approach: (1) eco- and sustainable innovation in business is based on ideas and people who cooperatively develop these ideas; (2) groups of people organized in commercial firms must realize these ideas cooperatively and create the innovations that can conquer the market; and (3) that people from governmental non-governmental not-for-profit research and commercial organizations can build institutional arrangements that stimulate these sustainable innovations changing both industry and society. Adopting a managerial perspective and discussing concepts and methods to manage eco-innovation in business this book highlights the interrelated roles of the individual the firm partnerships and business environments. Researchers and practitioners who want to combine a commercial and economical approach with an ethical and social ambition to create an ecologically sustainable firm stand to learn much from these pages. | Eco-Innovation and Sustainability Management

GBP 42.99
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Management Control Systems Decision-Making and Innovation Development The CDI Model

Management Control Systems Decision-Making and Innovation Development The CDI Model

The systematic approach to innovation development today is one of the world’s most prominent scientific fields and with good reason. When applied correctly such system produces regular outcomes which consistently drive lasting competitive advantage. Unfortunately as much as it is beneficial the orchestration of an undisturbed flow of multiple complex dynamic and flexible innovation development processes is structurally demanding. In this book a recognised innovation management specialist sets the record straight offering a comprehensive approach to the improvement of innovation efficiency with the use of management control system. Unlike other books on the subject it proposes original representation – the CDI model – of the relationships between management control system decision-making quality and innovation system efficiency and explains why management control is fundamental to innovation management. In addition to that inside the reader will find several original developments. These include: the info-deficiency (I-D) model depicting the various parameters hindering decision-making in innovation development; the product innovation development (PID) system offering the original function-based approach to innovation management; and the composite innovation index – specially designed tool intended to evaluate the efficiency of an innovation development system. It will be of interest to researchers academics practitioners and advanced students in the fields of management strategy and innovation. Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com | Management Control Systems Decision-Making and Innovation Development The CDI Model

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Responsible Research and Innovation From Concepts to Practices

Responsible Research and Innovation From Concepts to Practices

Responsible Research and Innovation provides a comprehensive and impartial overview of the European Commission’s Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) framework including discussion of both the meaning and aims of the concept and of its practical application. As a governance framework for research and innovation RRI involves four key perspectives: ethical economic/business legal and governance and political. The book is organised into chapters covering these different dimensions. The authors provide different viewpoints on these aspects in order to offer guidance from experts in the field while at the same time acknowledging the interpretative openness of the RRI frameworks. | Responsible Research and Innovation From Concepts to Practices

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Learning and Innovation in Natural Resource Based Industries

Learning and Innovation in Natural Resource Based Industries

This book develops and articulates a new perspective on the relationship between natural resources and development by foregrounding issues of innovation knowledge and industrial dynamics. Despite growing academic attention to the relationship between economic development and natural resources in social sciences the issue has received rather limited attention in the field of Innovation Studies. This is problematic given the centrality of innovation and technological change for growth and development. Against that background this book makes three contributions. Firstly it summarizes and synthesizes existing insights about learning and innovation in Natural Resource Based Industries. Secondly it develops new insights based on original research work. Thirdly it distils and explains the remaining research challenges in the field. Containing important insights for researchers businesses and policymakers this book will be useful to all those with an interest in navigating a natural resource based development pathway. This book was originally published as a special issue of Innovation and Development.

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Sport and Leisure

Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Sport and Leisure

This innovative textbook explains how sport and leisure organisations can become more entrepreneurial in order to achieve sustainable growth. It introduces key tools techniques and approaches that can help sport and leisure organisations put entrepreneurship at the centre of their culture. Drawing on cutting-edge research innovation discourses and perspectives from multiple disciplines the book introduces fundamental concepts in entrepreneurship innovation and enterprise such as digitalisation research and development (R&D) diversification extendibility and sustainability. It highlights future innovation challenges provides innovative solutions and introduces a new diagnostic tool for managing entrepreneurship and innovation. The book presents insights on everyday management challenges from experienced industry practitioners and considers the importance of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship at a time of austerity recession and increasing uncertainty. Full of real-world cases and scenarios as well as useful features to encourage critical reflection this book is essential reading for any course on entrepreneurship taken as part of a degree course in sport management leisure sports studies recreation event studies entertainment management or tourism. It is also fascinating reading for practitioners looking to improve their professional skills. | Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Sport and Leisure

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The Triple Helix University–Industry–Government Innovation and Entrepreneurship

The Triple Helix University–Industry–Government Innovation and Entrepreneurship

The triple helix of university–industry–government interactions is a universal model for the development of the knowledge-based society through innovation and entrepreneurship. It draws from the innovative practice of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with industry and government in inventing a regional renewal strategy in early 20th-century New England. Parallel experiences were identified in “Silicon Valley ” where Stanford University works together with industry and government. Triple helix is identified as the secret of such innovative regions. It may also be found in statist or laissez-faire societies globally. The triple helix focuses on “innovation in innovation” and the dynamic to foster an innovation ecosystem through various hybrid organizations such as technology transfer offices venture capital firms incubators accelerators and science parks. This second edition develops the practical and policy implications of the triple helix model with case studies exemplifying the meta-theory including: • how to make an innovative region through the triple helix approach; • balancing development and sustainability by “triple helix twins; • triple helix matrix to analyze regional innovation globally; and • case studies on the Stanford's StartX accelerator; the Ashland Oregon Theater Arts Clusters; and Linyi regional innovation in China. The Triple Helix as a universal innovation model can assist students researchers managers entrepreneurs and policymakers to understand the roles of university industry and government in forming and developing “an innovative region ” which has self-renewal and sustainable innovative capacity. | The Triple Helix University–Industry–Government Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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Innovation in Africa Fuelling an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem for Growth and Prosperity

Innovation in Africa Fuelling an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem for Growth and Prosperity

This book emphasizes the need for promoting innovation on the African continent. It identifies the roadblocks for entrepreneurs and discusses ways for developing an ecosystem for innovators to pave a way through the barriers and create ground-breaking products and new technologies which meet consumers’ needs in Africa. In order to stimulate innovation in African countries there is the need for a more appropriate approach for innovation to occur in a context of international openness to knowledge. This book adopts a practical approach demonstrating how innovation is an important driver of economic growth and competitiveness. It shows that innovation in Africa should be driven by local people in response to local problems and that open technology and knowledge sharing are vital to this project. It further explores key enablers such as the discovery of innovative talent overcoming barriers building strategic partnerships and promoting innovation across the continent. The book places emphasis on the creation of an innovation ecosystem as a value-creating tool by stakeholders for nation building and growth in Africa. This book will be of interest to researchers students international agencies governments businesses and individuals interested in the field of innovation and its potentials. It will also be relevant to investors manufacturers and other stakeholders involved in the economic development of Africa. | Innovation in Africa Fuelling an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem for Growth and Prosperity

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