It’s up to us to build this capacity by ourselves… starting from a robust support for and funding of our pertinent institutions, not in the way we’ve been doing for the Raw Materials Research and Development Council where there was no legislative nor executive leadership on their scope of activities, and the CEO was talking about kilishi …
And it’s all encompassing. Why should the chinese build our airports? Even our rail?
Nobody voluntarily transfers hard built technology. And the scientists don’t fund themselves.
Due to clear failures in our national management of the entire spectrum of research and development, the private sector needs to set up and competently run a Research, Development and Innovation Management Platform.
The main object is to create the much needed organic linkages and synergies between all of research, academia, technology institutes, business, industry, government and enterprise in a mutually reinforcing inclusive environment.
This will create freer flow of vital information, objectively gather needs, set goals, attract resources and funding to areas of interest toto each stakeholder, continuity until breakthrough, procure international cooperation, and facilitate commercialisation of resulting inventions.
