From SciDev Building a community of innovation scholars will promote locally relevant research and policy, say Bitrina Diyamett and Erika Kraemer-Mbula. Africa has made remarkable progress in building capacity in natural and engineering sciences over the past decade. The endorsement of Africa’s Science and Technology Consolidated Plan of Action (CPA) — which...
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African innovation won’t flourish unless more attention is paid to creating and sustaining markets for it, argues Linda Nordling. A little over two years ago, I wrote about how African countries can bring scientific innovations to the market, and argued that they should not wait for lumbering continental initiatives to start capitalising on their growing knowledge...
African academics are backing a drive to establish closer research and higher-education ties between countries on the continent to boost its development. The vision is set out in a document finalised last month (January) by the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) — with the support of the African Union and the African Academy of Sciences (AAS)...
A project partnering African universities with their counterparts in Catalonia, Spain, to bridge the ICT gap borne of small budgets and limited infrastructure is starting to bear fruit. Initiated last January, universities in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Madagascar, Mozambique and Senegal teamed up with eight Catalonian universities to develop inexpensive software to address...
African countries with their partners in research and the African pharmaceutical sector are taking steps to reshape the future of pharmaceutical research, medicines access and production for the continent. This is a response to the rapid evolution of the pharmaceutical innovation landscape seen in new trade rules, inter-governmental agreements and the promise of investment...
