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  • Tag: innovation hubs

    • Taking Stock of Innovation Hubs Literature, Plus Three Working Papers

      14 February 2018

      Author:

      Nicolas Friederici

      It has almost been a year since I finished the final draft of my dissertation about African innovation hubs. In the meantime, a number of publications have come out about ...
      Read More Taking Stock of Innovation Hubs Literature, Plus Three Working Papers

    • Africa’s Digital (R)Evolution: An Enterprise Perspective

      2 June 2017

      Author:

      Nicolas Friederici

      Kytabu’s colorful Nairobi office: the startup needed several years until it could afford such a space Digital entrepreneurship is on the rise across Africa. There is no question that ...
      Read More Africa’s Digital (R)Evolution: An Enterprise Perspective

    • Dissertation: African Hubs as Assemblers of Technology Entrepreneurs

      5 May 2017

      Author:

      Nicolas Friederici

      Good news: my dissertation on African technology innovation hubs is now complete! The digital record is here, and the hardbound copy will shortly be deposited with Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries ...
      Read More Dissertation: African Hubs as Assemblers of Technology Entrepreneurs

    • Hiring a Researcher at Oxford: Digital Entrepreneurship | Economic Geography | Sub-Saharan Africa

      9 December 2016

      Author:

      Nicolas Friederici

      We are recruiting a full-time Researcher to work with us at the Oxford Internet Institute (University of Oxford) on a project that critically assesses the changing landscape of digital entrepreneurship ...
      Read More Hiring a Researcher at Oxford: Digital Entrepreneurship | Economic Geography | Sub-Saharan Africa

    • Reconsidering the Role of the Digital in Global Production Networks (new paper)

      13 April 2016

      Author:

      Mark Graham

      Chris Foster and I have a new publication that will be coming out in Global Networks: Foster, C. and Graham, M. 2016. Reconsidering the Role of the Digital in ...
      Read More Reconsidering the Role of the Digital in Global Production Networks (new paper)

    • ‘Digital Transformations of Work’ 🎬 Conference Webcasts 🎬

      23 March 2016

      Author:

      Mark Graham

      The Digital Transformations of Work Conference that Alex Wood and I organised brought together a room full of brilliant and passionate speakers and 80 guests to have a wide-ranging and ...
      Read More ‘Digital Transformations of Work’ 🎬 Conference Webcasts 🎬

    • The Domestic Turn: Business Process Outsourcing and the Growing Automation of Kenyan Organisations (now in print)

      22 March 2016

      Author:

      Mark Graham

      I’m happy to announce a new paper to come out of our previous project studying Development and Broadband Internet Access in East Africa. The project looked at the role that changing ...
      Read More The Domestic Turn: Business Process Outsourcing and the Growing Automation of Kenyan Organisations (now in print)

    • Growing the Kenyan Business Process Outsourcing Sector (new publication)

      19 January 2016

      Author:

      Mark Graham

      A new publication of ours in now out in The African Technopolitan. Graham, M., Mann, L., Friederici, N. and Waema, T. 2016. Growing the Kenyan Business Process Outsourcing Sector, The African ...
      Read More Growing the Kenyan Business Process Outsourcing Sector (new publication)

    • Hubs vs. Incubators: What Are the Pain Points for Impact and Efficiency?

      28 December 2015

      Author:

      Nicolas Friederici

      With tech entrepreneurship on the rise across Africa, efforts to support the agenda are evolving and diversifying. There has been quite a bit of debate—sometimes of the heated kind—about ...
      Read More Hubs vs. Incubators: What Are the Pain Points for Impact and Efficiency?

    • The World Online

      8 July 2015

      Author:

      Ralph Straumann

      Internet Population cartogram (click for larger version) Description This map shows the total number of Internet users in a country (size of the country) as well as the percentage ...
      Read More The World Online

    • Measuring the Impacts of Connectivity

      18 June 2015

      Author:

      Mark Graham

      Huge resources are invested into plans and projects that are designed to connect some of the billions of people who still lack any sort of digital connectivity. Yet, it is surprising ...
      Read More Measuring the Impacts of Connectivity

    • Incubators vs. Hubs at the Example of Accra

      5 June 2015

      Author:

      Nicolas Friederici

      Use of the term “hub” has certainly been inflationary in discussions about innovation and entrepreneurship support. I believe that innovation hubs are a genuinely new (and exciting!) organizational form, ...
      Read More Incubators vs. Hubs at the Example of Accra

    • New paper: “The Domestic Turn: Business Processing Outsourcing and the Growing Automation of Kenyan Organisations”

      10 May 2015

      Author:

      Mark Graham

      I’m happy to announce a new paper to come out of our previous project studying Development and Broadband Internet Access in East Africa. The project was a collaboration between myself, ...
      Read More New paper: “The Domestic Turn: Business Processing Outsourcing and the Growing Automation of Kenyan Organisations”

    • The Internet and Business Process Outsourcing in East Africa

      25 February 2015

      Author:

      Mark Graham

      I’m happy to report the release of a new report that comes our of a multi-year project to student the Internet and the Business Process Outsourcing sector in East ...
      Read More The Internet and Business Process Outsourcing in East Africa

    • New paper: ‘Contradictory Connectivity: Spatial Imaginaries and Techno-Mediated Positionalities in Kenya’s Outsourcing Sector’

      22 January 2015

      Author:

      Mark Graham

      I am very happy to announce a new paper: ‘Contradictory Connectivity: Spatial Imaginaries and Techno-Mediated Positionalities in Kenya’s Outsourcing Sector.’ A pre-print is available below. Graham, M. 2015. Contradictory Connectivity: ...
      Read More New paper: ‘Contradictory Connectivity: Spatial Imaginaries and Techno-Mediated Positionalities in Kenya’s Outsourcing Sector’

    • Sample chapters available from new book ‘Research and Fieldwork in Development’

      12 January 2015

      Author:

      Mark Graham

      The publisher has kindly allowed us to freely share three chapters of our new book (that I co-wrote with colleagues Dan Hammett and Chasca Twyman): ‘Research and Fieldwork in ...
      Read More Sample chapters available from new book ‘Research and Fieldwork in Development’

    • First Geonet Publications Start Taking Shape

      2 December 2014

      Author:

      Sanna Ojanpera

      The first stage of the Geonet project aiming to broadly understand the diversity of new practices in Sub-Saharan Africa’s knowledge economy is off to a good start. Beyond collecting ...
      Read More First Geonet Publications Start Taking Shape

    • A Tech Innovation Hub in the Making: kLab and Its Many Roles and Stakeholders

      2 November 2014

      Author:

      Nicolas Friederici

      If you go to Rwanda and you’re interested in ICT and tech, chances are, you will soon pass through kLab, Kigali’s tech innovation hub. And so it was for ...
      Read More A Tech Innovation Hub in the Making: kLab and Its Many Roles and Stakeholders

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