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On 25-28 February 2013, Bio-Innovate Program successfully held its first scientific conference that was attended by over 150 participants ranging from the Program’s implementing partners and other stakeholders, donor community, science, technology and innovation policy makers, and the private sector. More than 30 oral presentations were made in two parallel sessions covering crop productivity and...
Bio-Innovate has adopted this concept in conducting its capacity building activities. The Program is supporting both MSc and PhD students whose outputs are directly linked to specific project activities. Scientists are sent out for short-term attachments to specialized laboratories outside their countries to acquire specific skills required in delivering particular project components. This ensures that the...
It is known that the eastern Africa region is plagued by perpetual food insecurity challenges influenced by outdated agricultural practices, overreliance on rain-fed agriculture, lack of an effective mechanism to disseminate new technologies to the farmers, and more recently unpredictable weather patterns due to the effects of climate change among other impediments. On the other hand the industrial sector has...
Nature Biotechnology 31, 10 (2013). doi:10.1038/nbt0113-10b Author: Linda Nordling The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the London-based charity Wellcome Trust launched a new initiative designed to bolster Africa’s genomics research capacity. The Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) scheme announced on October 8 is a $38-million, five-year project aimed at studying diseases that affect...
“Nearly two decades of propaganda and advocacy based on questionable scientific evidence forced many countries to forego the benefits of a new technology even before its merits had been assessed. In effect, these restrictions have introduced a new class of risks associated with not being able adopt a new technology even where it would confer benefits to farmers, consumers, and industrialists.” Go...
Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the practices and processes of trust building and use in collaborative networking for product innovation and to compare face to face with virtual networking. Design/methodology/approach – Guided by a literature review and preliminary participant observation, 16 open ended interviews collected data about the processes in 11 small biotech firms. These...
