Borrowed metrics, missed insights: why Africa needs its own STI playbook

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dc.date.accessioned 2025-11-18T13:03:35Z
dc.date.available 2025-11-18T13:03:35Z
dc.date.issued 2025-10-02 en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/24464
dc.description.abstract Africa’s innovation story cannot be told with borrowed metrics. While Africa’s mobile money service M-Pesa reshapes finance, and the network organisation AfriLabs supports innovation hubs and fuels grassroots tech, conventional science, technology and innovation (STI) measures overlook these advances. The real task is developing metrics that reflect Africa’s realities—where local innovation that improves lives matters as much as patents. Effective implementation of continental strategies like the Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy for Africa 2034 depends on developing innovation measures and indicators that capture Africa’s unique innovation paradigm. en
dc.format.medium Print en
dc.subject FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (4IR) en
dc.subject SCIENCE en
dc.subject TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION (STI) en
dc.subject INNOVATION en
dc.subject RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (R&D) en
dc.title Borrowed metrics, missed insights: why Africa needs its own STI playbook en
dc.type HSRC Review Articles en
dc.description.version Y en
dc.ProjectNumber KUAAAA en
dc.Volume 23(3) en
dc.BudgetYear 2025/26 en
dc.ResearchGroup Research, Development, Science and Innovation en
dc.SourceTitle HSRC Review en
dc.ArchiveNumber 9815122 en
dc.PageNumber 48-50 en
dc.outputnumber 15780 en
dc.bibliographictitle Whisgary, D. & Petersen, I. (2025) Borrowed metrics, missed insights: why Africa needs its own STI playbook. HSRC Review. 23(3):48-50. en
dc.publicationyear 2025 en
dc.contributor.author1 Whisgary, D. en
dc.contributor.author2 Petersen, I. en


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