Knowledge & Tech Transfer

Education is the substrate for change everywhere. Tecnhical schools, universities and their research institutions are the tipping point institutions where change that can affect a whole society can begin. Innovation and inventions are mostly expensive ventures. But luckily, a lot has been done elsewhere covering the key cores for a successful developental venture. Success stories and failures have been documented. This provides the opportunities on continents like Africa for making leaps into development by copying and modeling platforms and infrarstructures that have worked elsewhere. Unless African countries align their investment in education to the easier task of adapting technologies that already work elsewhere, they will fail in the future, no matter how much development aid they receive and how much they invest themselves. The developmental and technological platform that exist elsewhere, say Europe or North America, were unique events in human history – the models were created to suit many variables. Those variables are different from the African continent.

The platform that will lead Africa away from its woes is new and untested. This platform will most likely be built on science and technology, and nothing else. These subjects are heavily based on theory on the continent. Mastery of science and technology cannot occur without a solid hands-on experience. Our fundamental drive is thus to intermediate the creating of sub-regional core-centers and laboratories for the empowerment of hands-on research and production techniques that will complement theory. We complement this with practical analytical and softskills, empowering students to become creators in their environment and competitive in the world.

Technology allows humans to do more with less. But because every platform for industrial growth and revolution is new and unique to the time and environment it was applied to, no donor country or individuals can prescribe a magic road to development by remote action. By having local knowledge that allows for optimally modeling of a New Africa, we will rewrite the plan of the continent – we will steer it to new paths and begin a huge task of rebranding and building stability on the continent that will host most people on the planet in the not too distant future.

INSEARCH is about how to rewrite this plan for African by drawing on the differential experience gathered by African experts in the diaspora over the years. They have seen why things work. They have seen why the same things that work elsewhere did not work when exported onto the continent. INSEARCH has been investing heavily on building core laboratory facilities, and in teaching core logical and soft skills that are not taught in African universities over the years. We have been gathering data about new models that can work in this unique environment, rewiring its torduous path towards development and self-sufficiency.

And what could be signs of a successful knowledge and technology transfer process? We consider each of our venture successful if a new way of effective mimetic thinking, a business, a start-up, a copy-cat company, an innovative company and much more can trace their roots directly or indirectly to our projects.