Industrial clusters and innovation systems in Africa: institutions, markets and policy - Tapa blanda

This book examines the incidence and role of clusters as a viable form of industrial organization in Africa. It presents a series of theoretically-grounded case studies that analyze clusters in different industrial sectors and at different levels of economic development. The overall aim is to improve understanding of how local clusters can be transformed into local systems of innovation and how they can be better connected with global actors. The implications for policy and practice and provide guidance to governments, private sector associations, and non-governmental organisations are also examined.

Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka is a professor of technology, innovation and development and senior researcher at UNU-MERIT in Maastricht, The Netherlands. Dorothy McCormick is associate research professor and director of the Institute for Development Studies at the University of Nairobi in Kenya.