Mobile Phone Innovation and Technology-Driven Exports in Sub-Saharan Africa

in Stavros Sindakis , Panagiotis Theodorou (ed.) Global Opportunities for Entrepreneurial Growth: Coopetition and Knowledge Dynamics within and across Firms (Advanced Strategies in Entrepreneurship, Education and Ecology, Volume ) Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 393 – 413. DOI:10.1108/978-1-78714-50

23 Pages Posted: 12 Oct 2017 Last revised: 30 Dec 2017

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Simplice Asongu

African Governance and Development Institute

Date Written: January 12, 2017

Abstract

The study investigates how education, scientific output and the internet complement mobile phone penetration to affect technology commodity exports in Sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2000-2012. The empirical evidence is based on Generalised Method of Moments. The following main findings are established. First, the internet complements the mobile phone to boost technology goods exports. Second, the internet also complements the mobile phone to boost technology service exports. Third, positive marginal effects are apparent in the roles of educational quality and scientific output on technology goods exports and technology service exports respectively while negative marginal impacts are apparent in the roles of scientific output and educational quality on technology goods exports and technology service exports respectively. Practical and theoretical implications are discussed.

Keywords: Technology exports; Knowledge Economy; Development; Africa

JEL Classification: L59; L98; O10; O30; O55

Suggested Citation

Asongu, Simplice, Mobile Phone Innovation and Technology-Driven Exports in Sub-Saharan Africa (January 12, 2017). in Stavros Sindakis , Panagiotis Theodorou (ed.) Global Opportunities for Entrepreneurial Growth: Coopetition and Knowledge Dynamics within and across Firms (Advanced Strategies in Entrepreneurship, Education and Ecology, Volume ) Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 393 – 413. DOI:10.1108/978-1-78714-50, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3051657 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3051657

Simplice Asongu (Contact Author)

African Governance and Development Institute ( email )

P.O. Box 8413
Yaoundé, 8413
Cameroon

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