Its been argued that innovation and "enterprise is everywhere but unseen" this is as much case in the informal economy as it is within the fledgling network of laboratories and research institutes sprinkled across the continent. The challenge of developing a viable science engine that feeds a robust autocatalysing ecosystem is not due to the lack of homegrown invention and discovery. The constraints range from a siloed culture that is somewhat divorced from its own indigenous productive clusters to a mentality that insists on traditional top down hierarchies and methodologies.
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