Tag: innovation hubs
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Taking Stock of Innovation Hubs Literature, Plus Three Working Papers
14 February 2018
Author: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 ...
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Africa’s Digital (R)Evolution: An Enterprise Perspective
2 June 2017
Author: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 ...
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Dissertation: African Hubs as Assemblers of Technology Entrepreneurs
5 May 2017
Author: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 ...
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Hiring a Researcher at Oxford: Digital Entrepreneurship | Economic Geography | Sub-Saharan Africa
9 December 2016
Author: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 ...
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Reconsidering the Role of the Digital in Global Production Networks (new paper)
13 April 2016
Author: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 ...
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‘Digital Transformations of Work’ 🎬 Conference Webcasts 🎬
23 March 2016
Author: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 ...
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The Domestic Turn: Business Process Outsourcing and the Growing Automation of Kenyan Organisations (now in print)
22 March 2016
Author: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 ...
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Growing the Kenyan Business Process Outsourcing Sector (new publication)
19 January 2016
Author: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 ...
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Hubs vs. Incubators: What Are the Pain Points for Impact and Efficiency?
28 December 2015
Author: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 ...
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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 ...
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Measuring the Impacts of Connectivity
18 June 2015
Author: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 ...
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Incubators vs. Hubs at the Example of Accra
5 June 2015
Author: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, ...
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New paper: “The Domestic Turn: Business Processing Outsourcing and the Growing Automation of Kenyan Organisations”
10 May 2015
Author: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, ...
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The Internet and Business Process Outsourcing in East Africa
25 February 2015
Author: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 ...
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New paper: ‘Contradictory Connectivity: Spatial Imaginaries and Techno-Mediated Positionalities in Kenya’s Outsourcing Sector’
22 January 2015
Author: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: ...
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Sample chapters available from new book ‘Research and Fieldwork in Development’
12 January 2015
Author: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 ...
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First Geonet Publications Start Taking Shape
2 December 2014
Author: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 ...
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A Tech Innovation Hub in the Making: kLab and Its Many Roles and Stakeholders
2 November 2014
Author: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 ...
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