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“olugbenga adesida”

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  • Innovation Ecosystems in Africa

    Solving the problems that we have

    by Olugbenga Adesida ...
    Innovation Ecosystems in Africa aims to deepen and broaden the visibility and interrogation of African innovation systems in practice by offering unique analysis of the emergence, growth and future prospects of endogenous innovation practices and lessons across the continent. The stories depict systemic innovations in a range of critical development areas from health and education to leadership ... Read more

    $40.81 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Innovation Africa

    Emerging Hubs of Excellence

    Edited by Olugbenga Adesida, Geci Karuri-Sebina, João Resende-Santos ...
    Innovation is critical to growth and development in Africa. In the context of a continent characterized by fast growing economies as well as an array of socioeconomic challenges, such as high levels of poverty, innovation in Africa must be understood in an encompassing manner. Africa needs to foster the emergence of its own Silicon Valley, but it must also foster the invention and adoption of more ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD

  • Transforming Africa

    Fostering a New Innovation Agenda

    Edited by Olugbenga Adesida, Geci Karuri-Sebina, João Resende-Santos ...
    The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online.As Africa stands at the threshold of rapid global and technological change, Transforming Africa offers a timely, agenda-setting response to the urgent call for bold, future-oriented innovation across the continent.This edited volume explores how African countries can reshape their innovation ecosystems to meet ... Read more

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    by Lucas Simons, Andre Nijhof ...
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  • The Power of Unreasonable People

    How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World

    by John Elkington, Pamela Hartigan ...
    Series series Leadership for the Common Good
    Renowned playwright George Bernard Shaw once said "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." By this definition, some of today's entrepreneurs are decidedly unreasonable--and have even been dubbed crazy. Yet as John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan argue in The Power ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Changing the Food Game

    Market Transformation Strategies for Sustainable Agriculture

    by Lucas Simons ...
    By 2050, the world’s population is estimated to grow to 10 billion. To feed everyone, we will have to double our food production, to produce more food in the next 40 years than in the whole of the last 6,000. Changing the Food Game shows how our unsustainable food production system cannot support this growth. In this prescient book, Lucas Simons argues that the biggest challenge for our generation ... Read more

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  • Wellbeing Economy

    Success in a World Without Growth

    by Lorenzo Fioramonti ...
    Economic growth is a constant mantra of politicians, economists and the media. Few understand what it is, but they love and follow it blindly. The reality is that since the global financial crisis, growth has vanished in the more industrialised economies and in the so-called developing countries. Politicians may be panicking, but is this really a bad thing?Using real-life examples and innovative ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • SDGs, Transformation, and Quality Growth

    Insights from International Cooperation

    by Akio Hosono ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This is an Open Access book. The primary objective of this book is to seek out insights into the concept of high-quality growth (HQG). It explores the essential attributes of HQG, such as inclusiveness, sustainability, and resilience, as well as its relationship with transformation, by drawing principally on illustrative cases and instances of international cooperation. The United Nations document ... Read more

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  • Some Small Countries Do It Better: Rapid Growth and Its Causes in Singapore, Finland, and Ireland

    by Shahid Yusuf, Kaoru Nabeshima ...
    Countries worldwide are struggling to imitate the industrial prowess of the East Asian pacesetters, but growth accelerations have proven remarkably transient. Building a portfolio of tradable goods and services and steadily raising the level of investment in these activities, has generally defied the best policy efforts - in particular, bringing investment ratios on par with East Asian averages ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Fixing Fashion

    Rethinking the Way We Make, Market and Buy Our Clothes

    by Michael Lavergne ...
    Is global fashion a wolf in sheep’s clothing? An industry insider takes a hard look at the apparel trade.With sales of more than five hundred billion US dollars a year, the fashion industry is one of the most important sectors of the global economy, employing millions of men, women, and often children in the developing world. And yet its record is far from pretty. The collapse of Bangladesh's Rana ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Innovation Policy: A Guide For Developing Countries

    by World Bank ...
    Innovation in all its forms, particularly technological innovation, has become a crucial driver of growth, enhancing competitiveness and increasing social well-being in all economies of the world. In a broad and diversified sense, innovation comprises not only the creation of new technology, but even more important, it includes the diffusion and use of products, processes, and practices that are ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Being Global

    How to Think, Act, and Lead in a Transformed World

    by Ángel Cabrera, Gregory Unruh ...
    What does it take to lead a global business?What makes being a global business leader today such a complex task? It’s more than mastering your knowledge of various geographies and cultures, though that is essential. But to succeed, you must also master the complex mind-set and competencies needed to lead in today’s fully globalized world. Not an easy assignment.Enter Ángel Cabrera and Gregory ... Read more

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