Disruptive Technologies, Innovation and Development in Africa Peter Arthur

Part I. Disruptive Technologies and Africa: The Policy and Institutional Environment

1. Disruptive Technologies, Innovation and Transformation in Africa: The Present and Future

Part II. Rethinking Politics, Innovation and the Environment

2. Disruptive Technologies, Democracy, Governance and National Elections in Africa: Back to the Future?

3. Agricultural Research and Innovation: Disruptive Technologies and Value-Chain Development in Africa

4. Scientific Innovations and the Environment: Integrated Smart Sensors, Pollution and E-waste in Africa

5. Disruptive Technologies, Sustainable Energy Generation and Storage as Forms of Green Economy

Part III. Transformations in the Socioeconomic Sphere

6. Disruptive Technologies and the African Health-Care Crisis: A Path to Sustainability

7. Disruptive Technology and Knowledge Development: African Universities, Human Capital and Educating for Global Citizenship

8. Disruptive Financial Technology (FinTech) and Entrepreneurship in Burkina Faso

9. Disruptive Technology, Mobile Money, and Financial Mobilization in Africa: M-Pesa as Kenya’s Solution to Global Financial Exclusion?

Part IV. The Changing Nature of Wealth Creation

10. SMEs, Industrialization and Disruptive Technologies in Africa: Enabling or Constraining?

11. Disruptive Technology, Foreign Direct Investment and Private Sector Development Polices in Africa

12. Perspectives on Disruptive Innovations and Africa’s Services Sector

13. Automation of Knowledge Work and Africa’s Transformation Agenda: Threats, Opportunities, and Possibilities

Part V. Emerging Issues, Challenges and the Way Forward

14. Digital Transformation: A Connected and “Disrupted” Africa