Private legal practitioner Ace Ankomah has issued a call for the Ghanaian government to transform the nation’s scientific landscape by making technology and innovation both financially rewarding and socially prestigious.
Addressing the closing session of the three-day African Prosperity Dialogues in Accra, Mr Ankomah lamented a systemic failure to implement homegrown research, which he argued allows preventable problems to persist indefinitely.
The crux of the crisis, according to Mr Ankomah, lies in the burial of revolutionary ideas within tertiary institutions.
He contended that while Ghanaian students are consistently generating answers to the country’s most pressing engineering and technological hurdles, these solutions rarely move beyond the library shelves.
“I believe that the solutions to most of our science, technology, and engineering problems already exist, generated and germinated by our brilliant students, but buried in university archives in theses and research projects that identified real challenges and proposed workable answers,” Mr Ankomah asserted.
To bridge the chasm between academia and industry, Mr Ankomah proposed a rigorous policy shift that moves away from traditional grant-based research towards a commercially viable enterprise model. Read More.
Source: Myjoyonline
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