Actors in the scientific research and innovation subsector in Cameroon are converging on the esplanade of the Yaounde City Council for the 8th edition of the Excellence Week for Scientific Research and Innovation (JERSIC) on the theme “Scientific Research and Innovation as a Major “Made-in Cameroon and Import-substitution Policy Catalyst.” The Minister of Scientific Research and Innovation, Dr Madeleine Tchuinte, on behalf of the Prime Minister, officially opened the weeklong event this Tuesday October 17. The objective the event which holds every two years, is to valorise, promote and vulgarize scientific research and innovation results and which can be replicated for the country’s economic growth. With this year’s theme which harps on scientific research and innovation as a catalyst for made-in Cameroon and import-substitution, organisers say JERSIC seeks a stronger implication of the private sector in the process of scientific research and innovation. Amongst other things, the event will serve as a platform for collaboration between the scientific research and innovation actors and the productive sector. In fact, scientific research and innovation results should be at the service of the industrial sector which in turn produces made-in Cameroon products and hence limits massive imports. It is therefore the wish of the organisers that scientific research should be a part and parcel of the government-private sector dialogue platform. This, they say, will enable heads of enterprises to understand the importance of science and technology in order to improve the innovative capacity of their enterprises. It also emerge...
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