Software applications, or apps, that help solve East African farmers' climate problems have received cash prizes in the Apps4Africa competition.

Offices of research, innovation and commercialisation (ORIC) are set to improve links between Pakistan’s universities and its enterprises.

Asia now collectively invests slightly more than the United States in research and development, says a report.

Peru has unveiled an ambitious innovation project to improve collaboration between the public and private sectors, and boost science.

Uganda's president has declared, again, that he will raise scientists' pay to "international standards".

Scientists and officials in Senegal are working on a science policy that will join up research efforts to meet development needs.

A plan has been launched to link the new Zewail City of Science and Technology, with research institutions sharing similar interests.

The inaugural Olusegun Obasanjo Prize has been awarded to HIV/AIDS researchers Salim S. and Quarraisha Abdool Karim.

Bill Gates urged developed, emerging and developing economies to form 'triangular' partnerships to push innovations.

Installing solar-powered charging stations in African villages could bring in a steady income for rural entrepreneurs, says a report.

Pakistan has promised to increase research spending to two per cent of GDP, as part of a ten-year roadmap to develop its science.

Technologies such as mobile phones are generating new business models that are opening up healthcare opportunities for women and children.

A donkey ambulance and a mobile phone stethoscope have been rare examples of medical inventions suited to the developing world, a meeting heard.

Two inventions aimed at providing better latrines and safer drinking water in Cambodia are among 60 competing for the INDEX awards.

Researchers in Mali will gain access to a new science funding source in October, which could help improve science-based development in the country.

The Innovation Prize for Africa is expected to motivate African inventors to address the continent's challenges.

Venezuelan politicians and scientists have criticised private companies’ lack of autonomy over investment in R&D and will propose a new science bill.

An innovation and business centre at Kenya's Kenyatta University will try to channel students' ideas to the marketplace.

The university aims to revolutionise higher education but some academics have criticised its approach.

India has been sliding in the Global Innovation Index.