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Informal sector innovations : insights from the Global South / Mammo Muchie, Saradindu Bhaduri, Angathevar Baskaran and Fayaz Ahmad Sheikh.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Routledge, 2016. Oxon :Description: xvi, 161 p. : ill. ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781138943520 (hbk.)
Other title:
  • Informal Sector Innovations
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 330.91724 MUC 008271
Contents:
1.Introduction: Transformation of informal economies with innovation /​ Fayaz Ahmad Sheikh pt. I Perspectives of Informal Economy 2.Rational agent-based understanding of the informal sector: A critical assessment /​ Rene Rivera-Huerta 3.A new informal economy in Africa: The case of Ghana /​ Stephen Ameyaw 4.Development of entrepreneurial potential among undergraduates of a private university in Nigeria /​ Akeem Ayofe Akinwale 5.The confounding influence of urban informality on innovation and production specialisation in production clusters: evidence from Nairobi /​ John C. Harris pt. II Informal Sector Innovations: Insights from Africa 6.The dynamics of local innovations among formal and informal enterprises: Stories from rural South Africa /​ Peter Jacobs 7.Actor networks and innovation activities among rural enterprises in a South African locality /​ Hlokoma Mangqalaza Contents note continued: 8.Grassroots Innovation as a Mechanism for Smallholder Development in South Africa: Can Impact be Measured? /​ Maxwell Mudhara 9.Innovation and agricultural exports: the case of sub-Saharan Africa /​ Glen C. Filson 10.Effects of climate change on a peri-urban farming community in Lagos, Nigeria /​ Michael Simire 11.Agro-based technological innovation: a critical analysis of the determinants of innovation in the informal sector in Harare, Zimbabwe /​ Tarisai Manyati pt. III Informal Sector Innovations: Insights from India 12.Dynamic networks of grassroots innovators in India /​ Hemant Kumar 13.Jugaad to grassroot innovations: understanding the landscape of the informal sector innovations in India /​ Saradindu Bhaduri 14.Exploring informal sector community innovations and knowledge appropriation: A study of Kashmiri pashmina shawls /​ Fayaz Ahmad Sheikh Contents note continued: 15.Rethinking technological choices and knowledge production in the mines and on the factory floor: Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha's experiences in central India /​ Radhika Krishnan 16.Understanding the diffusion modes of grassroots innovations in India: A study of Honey Bee Network supported innovators /​ Ankush Gupta 17.Conclusion: From origin to future: changing informality to formality /​ Fayaz Ahmad Sheikh.
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The following chapters were originally published in the African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, volume 6, issue 3 (June 2014), volume 6, issue 4 (Dec. 2014), and volume 4, issue 3 (June 2012).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1.Introduction: Transformation of informal economies with innovation /​ Fayaz Ahmad Sheikh
pt. I Perspectives of Informal Economy
2.Rational agent-based understanding of the informal sector: A critical assessment /​ Rene Rivera-Huerta
3.A new informal economy in Africa: The case of Ghana /​ Stephen Ameyaw
4.Development of entrepreneurial potential among undergraduates of a private university in Nigeria /​ Akeem Ayofe Akinwale
5.The confounding influence of urban informality on innovation and production specialisation in production clusters: evidence from Nairobi /​ John C. Harris
pt. II Informal Sector Innovations: Insights from Africa
6.The dynamics of local innovations among formal and informal enterprises: Stories from rural South Africa /​ Peter Jacobs
7.Actor networks and innovation activities among rural enterprises in a South African locality /​ Hlokoma Mangqalaza
Contents note continued: 8.Grassroots Innovation as a Mechanism for Smallholder Development in South Africa: Can Impact be Measured? /​ Maxwell Mudhara
9.Innovation and agricultural exports: the case of sub-Saharan Africa /​ Glen C. Filson
10.Effects of climate change on a peri-urban farming community in Lagos, Nigeria /​ Michael Simire
11.Agro-based technological innovation: a critical analysis of the determinants of innovation in the informal sector in Harare, Zimbabwe /​ Tarisai Manyati
pt. III Informal Sector Innovations: Insights from India
12.Dynamic networks of grassroots innovators in India /​ Hemant Kumar
13.Jugaad to grassroot innovations: understanding the landscape of the informal sector innovations in India /​ Saradindu Bhaduri
14.Exploring informal sector community innovations and knowledge appropriation: A study of Kashmiri pashmina shawls /​ Fayaz Ahmad Sheikh
Contents note continued: 15.Rethinking technological choices and knowledge production in the mines and on the factory floor: Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha's experiences in central India /​ Radhika Krishnan
16.Understanding the diffusion modes of grassroots innovations in India: A study of Honey Bee Network supported innovators /​ Ankush Gupta
17.Conclusion: From origin to future: changing informality to formality /​ Fayaz Ahmad Sheikh.

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