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Start-up

A newly formed company usually based around a novel product or process (ECC).

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Apps for Africa

Prize-winning software applications are helping East African farmers cope with climate challenges
Men with a solar panel in Tanzania - Flickr/PRI's The World

Electrifying Africa

An African solar research network is aiming high
Kenyan farmer selling vegetables by Flickr/ Biodiversity International

Tech community power

'Open innovation' can stimulate the development of new technologies in any community, says iHub's Linda Kamau
Princess Sumaya by El Hassan Science City

After the Arab Spring

Q&A with Jordan's Princess Sumaya on where the opportunities lie for Arab science after the wave of uprisings
Processing biofortied cassava in Colombia by Flickr/CIAT International Center for Tropical Agriculture/Neil Palmer

More money, more problems?

Colombian scientists are divided over mining royalties going to areas with little research infrastructure