1. ENTERPRERIAL STI UNIVERITY IN
COMESA REGION
Triple Helix Workshop at Stanford University
15th November, 2012 2012
Fred Kong’ong’o
Coordinator STI programme
fkongongo@comesa.int
3. COMESA Membership
• The 19 Member States of COMESA are:
Burundi
Burundi Malawi
Malawi
Comoros
Comoros Mauritius
Mauritius
Congo, DR
Congo, DR Rwanda
Rwanda
Djibouti
Djibouti Seychelles
Seychelles
Egypt
Egypt Sudan
Sudan
Eritrea
Eritrea Swaziland
Swaziland
Ethiopia
Ethiopia Uganda
Uganda
Kenya
Kenya Zambia
Zambia
Libya
Libya Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe
Madagascar
Madagascar
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4. FACTS AND FIGURES
79% of Africa’s arable land remains uncultivated–
20% of the earth’s Land Mass – only 6% are cultivated
African population has just passed 1 Billion with around 400 Millions of
Youth
Enormous Primary Energy sources: Water, hydro, oil/gas, coal, nuclear
Renewable Energy sources: Solar, wind, geothermal, ocean waves/tides, bio-
energies
1 sq km of Africa’s desert receives Energy equiv to 1.5 millions barrels of oil
per year-1000 times the world’s entire annual energy
As per today Africa is using < 2 % of its hydro and geothermal power
potentials
Africa has rich and varied biological Resources
The global market value of pharmaceuticals derived from genetic resources is
estimated at US$75 billion to 150 billion annually;
Source : Mo Ibrahim Foundation, 2011:”African Agriculture: From Meeting Needs To Creating Wealth”, 2011, Revised
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Edition
5. FACTS YOUTH IN AFRICA (a)
Africa is the most ‘youthful’ continents of the world
About 500 Millions of Africa’s population is below the age of 18;
In 2010, Africa is home of 630 Millions of young below the age of 25;
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6. Importance of STI
• African Political • Harness and apply STI
leadership’s for sustainable socio-
economic development
recognition of S&T as a
goal to attain MDGs
and socio-economic • Ensure that Africa
contributes to the global
growth-recognised by pool of scientific
AU Summit of 2007 knowledge and
technological innovations
7. Development
Entrepreneurial
University in COMESA
8. Status
• Most Universities are funded by Government
• Due to funding constraints-created enterprise
development unit-acquiring businesses
• Some universities created -running
Businesses through these units
• Most do not office of technology transfer
• Link to Industry –office Industrial relation
offices for Internship
• ICT- based companies –initiated collaborations
with Universities –reduce cost- get human
capital
9. Entrepreneurship
• Many starts ups in and outside Universities
due to job shortage
• Some remain informal for a long time due to
business environment
• Protection to Student’s IP is weak thus link to
established companies weak
• Entrepreneurship talk in some Universities
• Some Universities have created incubators
• Tech companies promoting entrepreneurship
through global competitions
10. Entrepreneurial Universities
• Nokia and Microsoft and Cisco pioneered
Industry-University collaboration in certain
countries , Google, HP and IMB have now
joined
• Local companies are following
• However most Universities do not have a
structured way of dealing with this
partnerships
12. Cross border investments Designated regional
Infrastructure development STI Centers of excellence
Infrastructure
13. •Africa inherited education system –designed to produced civil servants
•– Change of mind set and attitude- reform -market focused needed
•Hold VC meeting –collaboration with Africa scholars in Diaspora-share
experience
Expand –engineering and science training
through South-South, North-South collaboration
Higher technical education
14. •COMESA –working to harmonize Intellectual properly
•PPP + Universities –policy
•Financial support-creation of Innovation fund-(Kenya,
Zimbabwe, Ethiopia already have funds-
•Mechanism to tap into private sector and NGO funding
•Regional and international collaborations
Policy Creation of
interventions to cross-
create border
entrepreneurial networks
ecosystem
Business incubation
16. Structured -STI advice at the highest level of Government
STI advisor Created
at all level of COMESA
Government Innovation
Council
Flagship
products
Regional
entreprene
urial
ecosystem
Science and
technology
diplomacy
Executive leadership
17. Summery
– Focus harnessing STI for economic development
– Created of Innovation Council –tap eminent STI persons to provide advise on STI
– Innovation wards at National level -regional level to starts 2013
– Capacity building -Executive programme in collaboration with Harvard Kennedy and
others
– Designated STI regional Centers of Excellence foster regional and international
collaboration
– Promoting creation of innovation funds National and regional level to support
entrepreneurial ecosystem
– Promotes of creation of Entrepreneurial Universities-graduate business as well as
students
– -Change of attitude -take advantage of the incubation potential of Universities
– Promotion of training of more engineers and scientist - line ministries , private sector
institutions
– Tap Diaspora talent to contribute to STI development
– Sharing of University Best Practices regarding innovation entrepreneurship and
commercialization
18. Key Ministerial decisions
– tapping into Africans in the Diaspora, vast amount of
knowledge exists among the Diaspora, invite and
provide a vehicle for supporting STI parks programs;
– Establish offices of Chief Innovation Advisors as well
as broad cross-sectoral national advisory committees
to assist harness and provide advice on knowledge
and innovations that could be diffused into the
economies.
– STI ministries -work closely with related ministries,
such as those for infrastructure, Health Agriculture,
ICT so that these include research and innovation in
their programmes and allocations.
19. Key Ministerial decisions
– Higher education ministers to promote the
creation of technical universities under other line
ministries and public corporations. To expand
engineering and technical training institutions,
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– On STI indicators- to add creation of new
enterprises incubated by universities, clusters and
science parks could be a good measure of
progress
20. Finally
When we aggressively execution
visionary policies
There is no reason for COMESA/Africa
not to bullish!!
Thank You
Editor's Notes
Thierry Amoussougbo, UNECA 20% of the earth’s Land Mass – More than Australia, Brazil, Europe and USA combined African population has just passed 1 Billion with more than 380 Millions of Youth Enormous Primary Energy source: Water, hydro, oil/gas, coal, nuclear Renewable/clean Energy: Solar, wind, geothermal, ocean waves/tides, bio-energies 1 sq km of desert receives equiv 1.5 millions barrels of crude oil per year < 2 % of Africa’s hydro and geothermal power potentials is used
Thierry Amoussougbo, UNECA 20% of the earth’s Land Mass – More than Australia, Brazil, Europe and USA combined African population has just passed 1 Billion with more than 380 Millions of Youth Enormous Primary Energy source: Water, hydro, oil/gas, coal, nuclear Renewable/clean Energy: Solar, wind, geothermal, ocean waves/tides, bio-energies 1 sq km of desert receives equiv 1.5 millions barrels of crude oil per year < 2 % of Africa’s hydro and geothermal power potentials is used