Green Industrialisation and Entrepreneurship in Africa
By Milan Brahmbhatt, Senior Fellow, New Climate Economy (NCE) and World Resources Institute1
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2017 African Economic Outlook: Entrepreneurship and Industrialisation in Africa.
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Policy makers across Africa have embraced industrialisation and economic transformation as keys to accelerate inclusive growth. They also increasingly see the need for economic transformation to deliver green growth – growth that does not endanger Africa’s natural environment in ways that reduce the welfare of present and future generations. Economic transformation and green growth depend on doing new things: making risky investments in new, unfamiliar sectors or products or adopting new, unfamiliar methods, processes, technologies, inputs or business models. All this depends crucially on the activity of entrepreneurs, who drive change through their innovation and risk-taking. Fostering entrepreneurship, including green entrepreneurship, is thus a key policy aim for African countries.
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