African innovators cannot scale inventions into commercial industries due to lack of institutional infrastructure
African entrepreneurs and inventors have viable ideas but lack access to the institutional machinery, funding pathways, and industrial infrastructure needed to transform prototypes into scalable businesses. Current solutions fail because they address individual innovation gaps rather than the systemic institutional barriers that prevent ideas from reaching market viability and commercial scale.
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From: Between invention and industry: Africa's missing middle
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Africa does not lack ideas. It lacks the institutional machinery that turns them into industries. Closing that gap is the continent's most consequential industrial challenge, writes Khalil Suleiman Halilu, Executive Vice Chairman and CEO, National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (N...
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Problem Details
- Category
- manufacturing
- Pain Keywords
- institutional infrastructure gap, innovation to commercialization, industrial scaling, missing middle, technology transfer
- Signals Collected
- 1
- Created
- 2026-10-09 16:26