<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br>African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development (AJSTID)<br><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 77.0px; text-indent: -77.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b> </b><a href="http://www.ajstid.com/"><b>http://www.ajstid.com/</b></a><b> </b></p><br>Harnessing science and technology, and fostering innovation have become<br>imperatives to address the problems and challenges of structural<br>transformation of the South. This is increasingly so in the context of<br>globalised and knowledge economy. As there is no journal with special focus<br>on science, technology, and innovation in Africa, AJSTID aims to address<br>this need. While it provides special focus on works related to the nature<br>of science, technology, and innovation process and learning across African<br>countries and other developing countries, it will also encourage submission<br>of works on developed countries. Increasingly process and impact of<br>science, technology, and innovation are viewed at two levels – one, the<br>narrow objective of achieving industrial growth and two, the broader<br>objective of achieving socio-economic development. AJSTID will provide<br>importance to both these bodies of research at various levels: firms,<br>sectors/ industries/clusters, regions and countries. AJSTID aims to target<br>both the policy making ( at corporate and government levels ) and the<br>academic communities who are concerned with the impact of science,<br>technology and innovation process on industrial, economic, and social<br>development, particularly in Africa and in other developing economies.<br><br><br>One of the core aims of AJSTID is to encourage emerging research scholars<br>particularly in Africa to publish their work in a journal that will be read<br>by the global community of scholars working on these topics. AJSTID also<br>intends to encourage well established researchers from all over the world<br>to contribute to the journal and help to build it to be one of the top<br>ranking journals. Although the main focus of AJSTID is Africa, researchers<br>and scholars from the rest of the world are encouraged to contribute to the<br>journal, particularly comparative works that have implications for all<br>developing economies.<br><br><br>AJSTID aims to be distinct from many other journals in this area. For this,<br>it includes research notes/commentaries -- individual accounts from<br>thinkers and experts in this area, and also accounts and contributions from<br>research networks about their activities. The research notes/commentaries<br>will provide on how accomplished researchers selected certain research<br>directions and not others and what influenced them to make their choices to<br>do certain research and not others. Accounts/ contributions from research<br>networks and their activities will be included to stimulate learning on how<br>functioning research networks work. Another novel addition is to invite<br>publication of reprints of path breaking research articles from highly<br>rated journals such as Research Policy.<br><br>AJSTID is supported by the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation<br>(IERI) at Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) and the South African<br>Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI), South Africa and it is published by<br>Adonis-Abbey Publishers, London, UK<br><br><br><br>Thierry H. Amoussougbo<br>Regional Advisor, ICT Initiatives<br>ICT, Science & Technology Division (ISTD)<br>United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)<br>Tel: 251 11 5443053<br>Fax: 251 11 5510512<br>E-mail : <a href="mailto:tamoussougbo@uneca.org">tamoussougbo@uneca.org</a><br><br><br></body></html>