Elvis Avenyo

Elvis Korku Avenyo is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development (CCRED) at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Before joining CCRED, he was a Research Officer at the Technology and Management Centre for Development (TMCD), Oxford Department of International Development (ODID), University of Oxford. He was also a Global Excellence and Stature (GES) Fellow, and Open AIR’s Queen Elizabeth’s Scholar (QES) at the SARChI Industrial Development Unit, University of Johannesburg. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics of Innovation, Policy Studies of Technical Change and Governance from the United Nations University (UNU–MERIT)/Maastricht University, The Netherlands. His specialisation focuses on the econometrics of firm innovations, informal sector innovations, the performance of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs), technologies, economic development, impact evaluation, and developing countries.