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New Fund and Network to Promote Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Africa

July 2, 2010 No comments yet

A new fund to facilitate the transformation of scientific research into viable commercial products has been established in Africa. The African Science, Technology and Innovation Endowment Fund (ASTIF) was launched at the Second Science with Africa conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on June 23-25.
The conference also established the first-ever African Technology Development and Transfer Network,

‘Science Gap’ Shrinks Globally, but Least Developed Countries Still Far Behind

October 12, 2009 No comments yet

Recent data released by the UNESCO Institute of Statistics(UIS) indicates that the global technology gap has been shrinking from 2002 to 2007, but the poorest countries still lag far behind.
According to a recent article on scidev.net by its director David Dickson, global trends indicate that emerging economies such as China, India, and Brazil are accelerating



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