Introduction: Building sectoral level competence & innovation systems in Africa / Mammo Muchie & Angathevar Baskaran -- System divergence or coherence : the variations of innovation system from the local to the global / Angathevar Baskaran & Mammo Muchie -- Technological capability, innovation capacity and agro-industry development in Nigeria / John Olatunji Adeoti & Adetola Ibidunni Adeoti -- Determinants of technology adoption in Ugandan agricultural manufacturing firms / Niringiye Aggrey -- Testing technology transfer policies for the South African seed industry / Sebastian Derwisch & Birgit Kopainsky -- Learning, upgrading and innovation in Nigerian indigenous industries / Siyanbola Willie O., Olamade Olumuyiwa O., Isola Oluseyi O. & Egbetokun Abiodun A. -- Natural gas in future Nigerian national industrial development : an overview in the context of current progress in technology / Aminu Bayawa Muhammad, Abdullahi Abdu Zuru, Muhammad Gidado Liman & Ahmad Ahmad Tijjani -- Uyinmwen and the development of an indigenous genre in the Edo-Benin home video industry, Nigeria / Uyilawa Usuanlele -- Barriers towards the development of emerging contractors in the Limpopo Province, South Africa / Lawrence K. Tshivhase & Zeleke Worku -- Forging partnerships for innovation through networking : case studies from the fodder innovation project, Nigeria / Elias Madzudzo -- Assessment of technological innovations in selected indigenous oilfield servicing firms in Nigeria / Oluseye O. Jegede, Abiodun A. Egbetokun** & Willie O. Siyanbola -- Financial lending and investment in sustainable small-scale agribusiness in Sub-Saharan Africa : a review of carbon sequestration and welfare benefits / Benjamin Olatunbosun -- Post scriptum / Mammo Muchie & Angathevar Baskaran