Many universities these days are translating their academic breakthroughs to products and innovations that can be marketed. For example, years of research into understanding a certain phenomena in natural science could lead to a discovery that ought to be patented, and there-after licenced for application in industry. If this discovery is not licenced for use by other companies, researchers often seek to establish their own start-up company with the aim of developing that innovated product.
In Europe, Asia and North America it is the norm to hear a handful or more companies established per University annualy with
the aim of commercializing their research outputs. I wonder, to what
extent is the performance of East African universities in establishing
such start-up companies that are offshoots of university research? We
have our DIT, UDSM, and KIST, how are their research-efforts performing in this respect?
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