Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Bacharelado em Ciências e Tecnologia
Práticas de Leitura e Escrita em Gêneros Acadêmicos em Língua Inglesa
Aluno: Antônio Paulino Dantas Júnior
Stagnant Health Technologies in Africa
Abstract
The Health Technologies are stagnant in Africa, the objective of that study is to identify the problems and to examine the motives of why technologies are not commercialized and also propose solutions. For it we visited 23 academic and health research institutes in different places of Africa and interviewed 39 scientists. We asked respondents to identify “technologies that have been developed or are being developed, but have failed to attain commercialization for one reason or another”. In this research it was identified 25 technologies, including traditional plant products, new drug molecules, diagnostics, vaccines, and medical devices. Many of the technologies identified (16 out of 25) were products of traditional plant medicines. Among the key reasons why technologies stagnate one is the cultural mindset of scientists and domestic and international policy-makers whose focus is not commercialization. Lack of institutional mechanisms to support further validation and subsequent commercialization exacerbates the problem. Other barriers identified by researchers included poor government and institutional policies to support commercialization, inadequate or poorly understood intellectual property regimes, regulatory bureaucracy, and user perception favoring foreign products. We detached some important needs which can improve the situation like a sub-Saharan African VC fund for science-based health innovation which could also be applied to other innovative sectors.
Keywords: Stagnant technologies, development technology, sub-development, health technologies, Commerciality technology in Africa.
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