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Analysis & Opinions - New African

Enterprises Must Promote Innovation

| August 21, 2015

"The diverse skills, capabilities and resources needed to run an effective pharmaceutical enterprise can be aggregated in a geographical locale to create an entrepreneurial ecosystem. Such an ecosystem can then help to spawn new businesses. For example, the knowledge built up in packaging can form the design basis for many other products."

Analysis & Opinions - allafrica.com

Creativity, Imagination Critical for Africa's Rebooting

| April 24, 2015

"Strong demand for raw materials, especially by China, and a growth in consumption by an expanding middle class has driven Africa's growth in the past decade. Seeking sustainability, policymakers are shifting their attention from raw materials to an economic outlook that is driven by technological innovation."

Analysis & Opinions - The Daily Nation

Africa Must Shift its Focus to Industrialise

| March 2, 2015

"Knowing which technologies provide a broad base for industrial development is key. For example, information and communication technologies serve as essential platforms, but most African countries have failed to view them as generic foundations for industrial diversification. Instead, they focus on devices and gadgets, not the underlying knowledge."

Analysis & Opinions - Technology+Policy | Innovation@Work

What Does It Mean to Be an Engineer?

| June 9, 2014

"While other disciplines in basic science aim to understand reality, engineers ultimately seek to build a new reality, a better place for everyone. When I pursued my education in biomedical engineering, and worked in the hospitals and clinics, I saw engineering everywhere. Engineering was needed for manufacturing the pharmaceuticals, designing the intravenous infusion pumps, programming the electronic medical records. I found that biomedical engineers were as much a part of patient care as nurses and physicians. Similarly, mechanical engineers and civil engineers contribute to transportation; environmental engineers contribute to sustainability and energy; and electrical engineers contribute to communications."

Analysis & Opinions - The Daily Nation

Engineering is the Engine that Will Power Africa's Growth

| May 9, 2014

"...[A]ll major infrastructure projects should include specific engineering education objectives as part of performance. Expansion of telecoms infrastructure should include support for new electronics engineering schools. Examples of such efforts include the role of telecoms ministries in creation of new technology universities in Egypt, Ghana and Kenya."

Administrative/Academic Complex, Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science & Technology, Arusha, Tanzania. This is one in a network of Pan-African Institutes of Science and Technology, which were the brainchild of South African leader Nelson Mandela.

NM-AIST-Arusha Photo

Analysis & Opinions - New Scientist

Mandela's Unsung Legacy of Science in Africa

| December 6, 2013

"Mandela will be remembered as one of the greatest leaders of all time. One of the best ways to live up to his loftiest aspirations for Africa is to give future generations science and technology education that gives them the skills to expand their economic opportunity. The next age of liberation will involve enabling Africa to play its rightful role in the global knowledge economy."