Private Legal practitioner, Ace Ankomah has called on the government to make science, technology, and innovation more attractive and rewarding in the country.
He lamented that many solutions developed through research by tertiary institutions are often not implemented, allowing problems that could be addressed through science and technology to persist and recur.
Speaking at the close of the three-day African Prosperity Dialogues in Accra, Ace Ankomah stressed the need to adequately equip research and science-based institutions.
He also urged that scientific ideas and innovations be patented to ensure they are properly protected.
“I believe that the solutions to most of our science, technology, and engineering problems already exist, generated and germinated by our brilliant students, but buried in university archives in theses and research projects that identified real challenges and proposed workable answers.
“Governments must act as facilitators, creating incubators on every campus, linking students, industry, capital, and policy. Protect intellectual property, patent innovations, turn research into enterprise, and make science and engineering attractive, respected, and rewarded,” he said.
