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This study—which includes a pilot intervention in Kenya—aims to further the state of knowledge about the emerging trend of disruptive agricultural technologies (DATs) in Africa, with a focus on supply-side dynamics. The first part of the study is a stocktaking analysis to assess the number, scope, trend, and characteristics of scalable disruptive technology innovators in agriculture in Africa. From a database of 434 existing DAT operations, the analysis identified 194 as scalable. The second part of the study is a comparative case study of Africa's two most successful DAT ecosystems in Kenya and Nigeria, which together account for half of Sub-Saharan Africa's active DATs. The objective of these two case studies is to understand the successes, challenges, and opportunities faced by each country in fostering a conducive innovation ecosystem for scaling up DATs. The case study analysis focuses on six dimensions of the innovation ecosystem in Kenya and Nigeria: finance, regulatory environment, culture, density, human capital, and infrastructure. The third part of the study is based on the interactions and learning from a pilot event to boost the innovation ecosystem in Kenya. The Disruptive Agricultural Technology Innovation Knowledge and Challenge Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, brought together more than 300 key stakeholders from large technology companies, agribusiness companies, and public agencies; government representatives and experts from research and academic institutions; and representatives from financial institutions, foundations, donors, and venture capitalists. Scaling Up Disruptive Agricultural Technologies in Africa concludes by establishing that DATs are demonstrating early indications of a positive impact in addressing food system constraints. It offers potential entry points and policy recommendations to facilitate the broader adoption of DATs and improve the overall food system.

Deutschlands künftiger Beitrag zur Sicherheit Europas und seiner Verbündeten hängt davon ab, ob die Bundeswehr aufkommende und disruptive Technologien (Emerging and Disruptive Technologies, EDTs) wie künstliche Intelligenz, 5G/6G-Mobilfunktechnologie, Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satelliten-Konnektivität sowie Quantencomputing und -kommunikation effektiv nutzen kann. Selbst inmitten des russischen Angriffskriegs gegen die Ukraine bleibt Deutschland einem konzeptionellen, institutionellen und ethischen Silodenken verhaftet, das zu Entkopplungen zwischen dem Verteidigungs- und Technologiesektor ebenso wie zu Diskrepanzen mit seinen Verbündeten führt. Damit Deutschland nicht nur die unmittelbaren militärischen Anforderungen erfüllen kann, sondern die Bundeswehr auch für zukünftige Einsätze gewappnet ist, sollte die Zeitenwende nicht nur eine Erhöhung des Verteidigungshaushalts bewirken, sondern auch die Basis für eine Vereinbarkeit von ethischen und militärischen Anforderungen an EDTs schaffen.

The term "disruptive technologies" was introduced 1997 by Clayton Christensen in the context of innovations in the business world based upon technological developments. It was meant to sharpen the view for new technologies which can "disrupt" the economic context of a business. Since then it inspired other communities like so many terms in English (or American) language. One of these is the domain of international Research & Technology (R&T) cooperation and technological forecasting for public defence and security planning. In this community the term gained a somewhat different meaning which we would like to sketch in this paper.

Cover -- Half Title -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Title Page -- About the Editors -- Acknowledgements -- Editor's Note: -- Complex Urban Futures: Design Science for Flux Territories -- The Allegorithmic Utopia of Videogame Urbanism -- Evolving Design: From Computer Tools to Generative Design Partners -- Entering a Bio-Based Material Paradigm: Probing Advanced Computational Methods for a Shift in Material Thinking -- Home Position: Reflecting on Disciplines, Discontinuities and Design Spaces -- Automation, Architecture and Labour -- Augmenting Human Designers and Builders: Augmentation Discussed in Architectural Design Research -- An Intelligent Framework for Resilient Design (InFraReD) -- Disrupting Design(ers) through Automation -- Scaling Construction Robotics -- Natural Intelligence: Design with Living Materials -- Research by Design: The Gantry -- Digital Constructivism: Democratising the Digital -- Panels, Polygons and Pixels: How Data Informs Supertall Tower Design -- Final Word -- Contributors -- Recommended Reading and Sources -- Index -- Image Credits.

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Emerging technologies -- Disruptive and emerging technology : the brutal truth -- The innovation expectation gap -- TBD : technology, behaviour, data, design -- Advanced TBD -- How to get sign off -- Creating open businesses / Departments -- Things to watch out for -- Dis-innovation -- Disruption and the millennial generation -- The future of TBD and emerging technologies -- Conclusion -- References -- Index

1. Disruptive Technologies, Innovation and Transformation in Africa: The Present and Future -- 2. Disruptive Technologies, Democracy, Governance, and National Elections in Africa: Back to the Future? -- 3. Agricultural Research and Innovation: Disruptive Technologies and Value Chain Development in Africa -- 4. Disruptive Technologies and Scientific Innovations: Integrated Smart Sensors, Pollution and E-waste in Africa -- 5. Disruptive Technologies, Sustainable Energy Generation and Storage as Forms of Green Economy -- 6. Disruptive Technologies and the African Health Care Crisis: A Path to Sustainability -- 7. Disruptive Technology and Knowledge Development: African Universities, Human Capital and Educating for Global Citizenship -- 8. Disruptive Financial Technology (FinTech) and Entrepreneurship in Burkina Faso -- 9. Disruptive Technology, Mobile Money and Financial Mobilization in Africa: M-Pesa as Kenya's Solution to Global Financial Exclusion? -- 10. SMEs, Industrialization and Disruptive Technologies in Africa: Enabling or Constraining? -- 11. Disruptive Technology, Foreign Direct Investment and Private Sector Development Policies in Africa -- 12. Perspectives on Disruptive Innovations and Africa's Services Sector -- 13. Automation of Knowledge Work and Africa's Transformation Agenda: Threats, Opportunities and Possibilities -- 14. Digital Transformation: A Connected and 'Disrupted' Africa. .

Acknowlegments -- Contents -- 1 Disruptive Cooperation: Innovation for Health's Wicked Problems -- The Business Case -- How (un)Healthy Are We? -- The Challenge of Chronic Diseases -- Aging in Place and Digital Health -- Waste and Inefficiencies -- Wireless Health and the Health IT Ecosystem: The Technology that Is Driving Change -- Health 2.0: Social Networks and Health -- The Algorithmic Revolution in Health care -- 2 Patients, Platforms, and Wearables: Co-creating Value from Health Data and Wearables -- Enabling Patient and Researcher Collaborations

This workshop report summarises the discussion of 10 scholars, debating what impact AI has on geopolitics, whether there is a need for a new analytical framework to capture AI's impact on international relations, and what we can learn from other technologies and their respective impact on geopolitical developments.

The current security environment faces two major challenges. On the one hand, the international arms control and security architecture are deteriorating. Doctrinal innovations, first in Russia and then in the United States, allow for limited use of nuclear weapons, including potentially the low-yield varieties. On the other hand, advanced conventional weapons, cyber warfare, artificial intelligence, and other emerging technologies increase the risk of conflict, which could escalate to the nuclear level. As risks increase, the political will to pursue cooperative solutions to prevent arms race and war continues to diminish. Some nuclear states are even reluctant to recommit to the Reagan-Gorbachev statement that "A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought."