African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development (AJSTID) Harnessing science and technology, and fostering innovation have become imperatives to address the problems and challenges of structural transformation of the South. This is increasingly so in the context of globalised and knowledge economy. As there is no journal with special focus on science, technology, and innovation in Africa, AJSTID aims to address this need. While it provides special focus on works related to the nature of science, technology, and innovation process and learning across African countries and other developing countries, it will also encourage submission of works on developed countries. Increasingly process and impact of science, technology, and innovation are viewed at two levels – one, the narrow objective of achieving industrial growth and two, the broader objective of achieving socio-economic development. AJSTID will provide importance to both these bodies of research at various levels: firms, sectors/ industries/clusters, regions and countries. AJSTID aims to target both the policy making ( at corporate and government levels ) and the academic communities who are concerned with the impact of science, technology and innovation process on industrial, economic, and social development, particularly in Africa and in other developing economies. One of the core aims of AJSTID is to encourage emerging research scholars particularly in Africa to publish their work in a journal that will be read by the global community of scholars working on these topics. AJSTID also intends to encourage well established researchers from all over the world to contribute to the journal and help to build it to be one of the top ranking journals. Although the main focus of AJSTID is Africa, researchers and scholars from the rest of the world are encouraged to contribute to the journal, particularly comparative works that have implications for all developing economies. AJSTID aims to be distinct from many other journals in this area. For this, it includes research notes/commentaries -- individual accounts from thinkers and experts in this area, and also accounts and contributions from research networks about their activities. The research notes/commentaries will provide on how accomplished researchers selected certain research directions and not others and what influenced them to make their choices to do certain research and not others. Accounts/ contributions from research networks and their activities will be included to stimulate learning on how functioning research networks work. Another novel addition is to invite publication of reprints of path breaking research articles from highly rated journals such as Research Policy.