Africa: Fund Aims to Turn African Science Ideas Into Business

28 June 2010

Addis Ababa — The UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) has launched a fund that it hopes will help turn scientific ideas into successful enterprises.

The African Science, Technology and Innovation Endowment Fund (ASTIEF), along with the African Science to Business Challenge (ABSC) were launched at the second Science with Africa Conference last week (23-25 June) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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