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Financing Innovation and Industry Development challenges in the African Pharmaceutical Sector

By Mourine Chepkemoi and Moses Owidhi This blog is based on highlights and discussions held during the ‘Financing Innovation and Industry Development challenges in the African Pharmaceutical Sector’ webinar – […]

Developing innovation indicators to inform new policy mixes in African countries

Webinar held on 23rd March 2023 Author: Josephat Okemwa Speakers Mr. Lukovi Seke (Chair) Programme Officer: Science and Technology & ASTII Project Lead (2021-2025). Programme Innovation and Planning Directorate (PIPD), […]

Industrializing through Global Value Chains: What Africa can learn from East Asia and Latin America

Authors: Yvonne Gitu and Moses Owidhi This blog is based on highlights and discussions held during the ‘Industrializing through Global Value Chains: What Africa can learn from East Asia and […]

Intellectual Property, Innovation and Entrepreneurship as drivers for Economic Development in Africa

Authors Moses Owidhi This blog is based on highlights and discussions held during the ‘Intellectual Property, Innovation and Entrepreneurship as drivers for Economic Development in Africa’ webinar – AfricaLics Webinar […]

Using mobile money to increase enterprises’ sectorial turnover

By Bernadin G. C. Ahodode, Researcher, the University of Abomey-Calavi (UAC), Benin Republic The blog is based on a study conducted by the author on comparative analysis of the complementarity […]

Reflections on the webinar “Re-configuring science systems for societal challenges: lessons from Covid-19 for STI policies in Sub-Saharan Africa”

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Webinar held on 12th May 2022 Author: Josephat Okemwa Background to the webinar Covid -19 has brought the relevance of science, innovation and evidence into everyday conversations. In these conversations, […]

Reflections on the webinar “Building Science Systems: The role of the Science Granting Councils (SGCs)

Authors: Moses Owidhi, Josephat Okemwa and Mourine Chepkemoi Background to the webinar The Science Granting Councils Initiative (SGCI) brings together 16 different councils from across Africa, that are English, French […]

Research on innovation as opposed to research in innovation: transforming innovation education for a better tomorrow

7th Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (STI Forum) – Side Event May 4th @ 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EAT on Zoom The […]

Reflection on the webinar “Building innovation capabilities for sustainable industrialization in Africa: Status and prospects”

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Webinar held on 2nd December 2021 Authors: Josephat Okemwa and Moses Owidhi Cite: Okemwa, J.M; & Owidhi, M.J (2022, April 06). Building innovation capabilities for sustainable industrialization in Africa: Status […]

Every upcoming or early career scholar needs mentorship: Experiences from the AfricaLics Mentorship Programme

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Author: Dr. Justina A. Onumah, Senior Research Scientist at the Science and Technology Policy Research Institute of the CSIR-Ghana Publishing can be a daunting task “I have authored and co-authored […]