Dr Elvis Korku Avenyo is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Competition, Regulation, and Economic Development and a Senior Research Associate at DST/NRF, and South African Research Chair in Industrial Development at the University of Johannesburg. He obtained his PhD in Economics of Innovation, Policy Studies of Technical Change and Governance from the United Nations University Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) and Maastricht University, The Netherlands.