Disruptive Technologies, Innovation and Development in Africa. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Peter Arthur, Kobena T. Hanson, Korbla P. Puplampu.
• Editors: Arthur, Peter; Hanson, Kobena T; Puplampu, Korbla P
• Contents: ​1. Disruptive Technologies, Innovation and Transformation in Africa: The Present and Future2. Disruptive Technologies, Democracy, Governance, and National Elections in Africa: Back to the Future?3. Agricultural Research and Innovation: Disruptive Technologies and Value Chain Development in Africa4. Disruptive Technologies and Scientific Innovations: Integrated Smart Sensors, Pollution and E-waste in Africa5. Disruptive Technologies, Sustainable Energy Generation and Storage as Forms of Green Economy6. Disruptive Technologies and the African Health Care Crisis: A Path to Sustainability7. Disruptive Technology and Knowledge Development: African Universities, Human Capital and Educating for Global Citizenship8. Disruptive Financial Technology (FinTech) and Entrepreneurship in Burkina Faso9. Disruptive Technology, Mobile Money and Financial Mobilization in Africa: M-Pesa as Kenya's Solution to Global Financial Exclusion?10. SMEs, Industrialization and Disruptive Technologies in Africa: Enabling or Constraining?11. Disruptive Technology, Foreign Direct Investment and Private Sector Development Policies in Africa12. Perspectives on Disruptive Innovations and Africa's Services Sector13. Automation of Knowledge Work and Africa's Transformation Agenda: Threats, Opportunities and Possibilities14. Digital Transformation: A Connected and 'Disrupted' Africa.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (312 pages)
• Subjects: Political science; Political economy; Business & Economics -- Development -- Sustainable Development; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Sustainability; Politics & government; Sociology; Political Science -- Economic Conditions; Political economy; Economic development--Environmental aspects; Africa--Politics and government; Technology--Sociological aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030406479
• Related ISBNs: 9783030406462
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