IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/tpr/inntgg/v7y2012i4p59-67.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Mobilizing Tech Entrepreneurs in Africa (Innovations Case Narrative: iHub)

Author

Listed:
  • Erik Hersman

    (Erik Hersman is the cofounder of Ushahidi, iHub Nairobi, and AfriGadget. He is also a Senior TED Fellow and a PopTech Fellow.)

Abstract

No abstract is available for this item.

Suggested Citation

  • Erik Hersman, 2012. "Mobilizing Tech Entrepreneurs in Africa (Innovations Case Narrative: iHub)," Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization, MIT Press, vol. 7(4), pages 59-67, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:inntgg:v:7:y:2012:i:4:p:59-67
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/INOV_a_00152
    File Function: link to full text PDF
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Williams, Sarah & White, Adam & Waiganjo, Peter & Orwa, Daniel & Klopp, Jacqueline, 2015. "The digital matatu project: Using cell phones to create an open source data for Nairobi's semi-formal bus system," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 49(C), pages 39-51.
    2. Lauren Rosenberg & Alan Brent, 2020. "Infrastructure Disruption in ‘Silicon Savannah’: Exploring the Idea of the Creative Class and their Relation to Quality of Place in Nairobi, Kenya," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 44(5), pages 809-820, September.
    3. Joseph Owuondo, 2023. "A Comparative Study of Entrepreneurial Education and Startup Ecosystems: United States vs. Kenya," International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation, International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI), vol. 10(10), pages 115-123, October.
    4. Nicolas Friederici, 2018. "Grounding The Dream Of African Innovation Hubs: Two Cases In Kigali," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 23(02), pages 1-22, June.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    mobile; entrepreneurship; Kenya; Africa; iHub;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship
    • N77 - Economic History - - Economic History: Transport, International and Domestic Trade, Energy, and Other Services - - - Africa; Oceania
    • O30 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - General

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:tpr:inntgg:v:7:y:2012:i:4:p:59-67. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Kelly McDougall (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://direct.mit.edu/journals .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.