Botswana’s innovation barriers exposed

Botswana’s drive to diversify its economy is being stymied by entrenched divisions among research, policy, capital, and industry, experts warned at the Falling Walls Lab Gaborone. The country struggles to translate innovation and research into viable commercial products and businesses, panelists said, calling for improved coordination, sustained investment in research, intellectual property development, and closer collaboration between universities, government, and the private sector. The panel, titled “Which Walls Must Fall First?”, assembled policymakers, academics, investors,...