Can Africa play a role in the ‘omics’ revolution? This is a question that I am being asked frequently by colleagues locally and internationally. If yes, what role could it be? I’d like to explore the role Africa can play through 3 different lenses: China’s role as an emerging superpower in biotechnology, with a particular [...]
biotechnology
Constant gardeners – How we can stimulate innovation in emerging econcomies
In a recent blog on Harvard Business Reviews online (http://blogs.hbr.org/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/8878), Vijay Govindarajan and Justin Chakma argued that some VC firms operating in emerging economies follow a systems-based philosophy when making investment decisions. More specifically, some of these companies treat investments in discrete entities as part of a value chain(s), with multiple inter-relationships and inter-dependencies, [...]