Seeking for the shift towards challenge-oriented innovation policies: Tracing digitalization policies over two decades in Africa
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Keywords
Innovation policy; grand challenges; digitalization; South Africa; Rwanda; transformation; system innovation; policy evolution;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General
- O30 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - General
- O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
- O38 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Government Policy
- O55 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Africa
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2023-11-13 (Africa)
- NEP-DEV-2023-11-13 (Development)
- NEP-INO-2023-11-13 (Innovation)
- NEP-TID-2023-11-13 (Technology and Industrial Dynamics)
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