SciDev.Net

Collaborative networks are crucial to improve the state of African higher education, says innovation expert Mammo Muchie.

Developing world businesses must invest in nanotech research and development for clean water to stay ahead, says Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb.

Open innovation has potential to revitalise the development sector, providing new sources of creative knowledge and resources, says Tara Acharya.

There are big plans afoot to get African science to the market place, but why wait for continent-wide resolutions, says Linda Nordling.

A bottom-up approach is making locally-appropriate pesticides available to India's poorer farmers, explains Daniel Puente-Rodríguez.

Africa should be the driver, not co-pilot, of malaria vaccine development, argues Tom Egwang.

Athar Osama says that while attempts to transplant US-style venture capitalism to the developing world may still be doomed to failure, carefully designed programs stand a fair chance of success.

Andrew Barnett argues that more attention needs to be paid to the state of the pipeline that connects research to its application.