Ideas factory - an innovators' dream
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2008-03Author(s)/Corporate Author (s)
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Scientists do not usually participate in competitive sports, but imagine for a second, an Olympics for African scientists and researchers, showing off their prowess and demonstrating recent achievements in a competitive, albeit friendly atmosphere – not in a stadium, but in labs, equipped with whatever it takes to produce scalable results. Celebrating African achievements in science through various types of competitive ideas was the objective behind the ideas factory session facilitated by Brainstore, a Swiss company dedicated to cutting out bureaucratic and lengthy hurdles to get research ideas implemented. Out of several hundred proposals submitted by science and research enthusiasts, for the Science with Africa Conference, twenty were processed by Brainstore’s “industrial idea production process”, designed to stimulate innovative.
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“United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa. (2008-03). Ideas factory - an innovators' dream. Addis Ababa:. © UN. ECA,. https://hdl.handle.net/10855/32770”Collections
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