Described as a support system for building a sustainable innovation ecosystem in Nigeria, UNILAG Vice-Chancellor, Folasade Ogunsola...
Despite ranking 50th in the world among countries with research paper publications, Nigeria is said to have ranked poorly in the number of innovations derived from these research papers., Akoka, Abiodun Gbenga-Ilori, a total of 13,282 research papers were published in Nigeria in 2020, ranking 50th globally based on the figure.
Speaking on the project’s goal, Mrs Gbenga-Ilori, who doubles as the Team Lead, highlighted the factors identified to be militating against the conversion of research to innovation in Nigeria including “lack of proper know-how on how to innovate; limited access to capital for prototyping; inadequate access to machinery and laboratory equipment; slow intellectual property protection, and limited access to market and industry linkages.
Speaking on the initiative, the Country Manager of RISA, Alice Omisore, said the objective is to bridge the gap “between research institutions and innovators through funding and technical support for many organisations that are focused on providing capacity building for the research and innovation ecosystem.”
Meanwhile, the Director of Skills Development and Entrepreneurship at the National Universities Commission , Ladan Ashafa, who represented the agency’s Executive Secretary, Abubakar Rasheed, commended RISA for the funding. She noted that 600 of the 800 innovators have already been onboarded, adding that 225 supported Minimum Viable Products have been created, and that it will ensure the provision of a minimum of 80 IP protection request fields.
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