AJSTID is a multi-disciplinary and refereed international journal with a special focus on science, technology, and innovation in developing economies, with a special reference to Africa. It has been established on the basis of the recognized role of innovation in the development of economies and on the relative absence of research in the area, particularly in the case of Africa. AJSTID seeks to encourage research along three broad streams. This first is the role of science, technology and innovation in the process of industrial growth and development. The second stream concerns the broader area of socio-economic development. The third invites work exploring the inclusion of innovation and knowledge in cross border integration processes particularly in Africa. AJSTID will solicit submissions on both these research streams at various levels: firms, sectors/ industries/clusters, regions and countries.

 Objectives

AJSTID aims to target both the policy making and the academic communities who are concerned with the impact of science, technology and innovation process on industrial, economic, and social development, particularly in developing economies. AJSTID will publish research papers that will benefit policymakers at national and international levels, corporate executives, and development agencies and institutions in the policy making world, and academic scholars and academic/ research institutions in the academic world.

AJSTID seeks to foster research and policy discussions that can significantly impact on decision making at both corporate and government levels. AJSTID seeks to contribute towards influencing the direction of STI policy and change in the socio-economic development processes in African countries in particular and in other developing countries in general.  

Readership

AJSTID targets three groups: the academic community including established scholars, research students and academic institutions; the policy making community including policy makers at national and international levels and in the corporate sector -- government decision-makers, politicians, corporate executives, senior management of development agencies and investors; and those members of society in general who show interest in issues of science, technology, innovation and development, particularly in the context of developing economies.

Contents

AJSTIDwill publish empirically and theoretically oriented articles based on original research, research notes, book reviews and commentaries. AJSTID will encourage particularly comparative studies of countries or sectors across countries. AJSTID will also come up with special editions devoted to specific themes covered by the journal from time to time.

Subject Coverage

AJSTIDcovers a wide range of issues and topics related to science, technology, innovation and development in the context of emerging and developing economies. These include:

• Technological development, learning and innovation processes at the firm level and their impact on industrial economic performance. Development of non-technological (e.g. marketing, finance) capabilities and their interactions with technological capabilities at the firm level.
  
• Technological development, learning and innovation processes at the sector/cluster level and their impacts.  
  
• National and regional innovation systems and their impacts on socio-economic development.
  
• Process of globalisation and its impact on science, technology, and innovation processes particularly in developing countries.
  
• Indicators of science, technology and innovation in developing countries
  
• Intellectual property regimes and innovation in developing countries
  
• University-industry linkages and Innovation
  

• Financing innovation

• Annual subscription – print and online, including postage: 

• Institutions in the West : £150 (£120 online only)
  Institutions in Africa and other developing countries:£120 (£100, online only)
  Individuals: £80 (£50, online only)
  
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  Professor Freeman on AJSTID 
   
  For many reasons, I heartily welcome the launch of an African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development.. On the one hand, a number of non-African powers colonised parts of South, Central, West, East and North Africa and imposed a variety of administrations, including policies for innovation. On the other hand, the original inhabitants of all the regions of Africa succeeded to some degree, in spite of overwhelming and sometimes brutal repression in maintaining and preserving more traditional and respected ways of thinking and behaviour. Consequently, there is a very rich variety of technology and modes of innovation. These are, of course, mainly of interest to the Africans themselves but the variety is so great, the experience so diverse and the origins so disparate that I would expect this journal to circulate widely outside as well as inside Africa. In any case, I wish the journal every success and look forward very much to reading the first issue in 2009. I am delighted to offer a very warm welcome to this latest addition to our young and growing family of innovation journals.
  
  Christopher Freeman
  Emeritus Professor & Founding Director
  Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU)
  University of Sussex , Brighton, UK

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