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Entrepreneurship — setting up new businesses — can stimulate innovation and invigorate local markets. But the challenge in developing countries is often finding forms of entrepreneurship that meet the needs of the poor.
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Opinions and Analysis
Nanotech for water can help business innovate and grow
Developing world businesses must invest in nanotech research and development for clean water to stay ahead, says Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb.
Users can drive creative innovation for the poor
Open innovation has potential to revitalise the development sector, providing new sources of creative knowledge and resources, says Tara Acharya.
A local approach to agri-technology in India
29 October 2008
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News and Features
Q&A: Tadataka Yamada and wild science ideas
The executive director of the Gates Foundation tells SciDev.Net why he is throwing conventional research proposals into the bin.
Blueprint says make the most of African enterprise
The Africa Commission is calling for more investment in higher education as well as technology transfer to bolster entrepreneurship.
15 May 2009
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'Ambitious' Qatar launches major science park
31 March 2009
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Profit from poverty: Turning victims into consumers
6 February 2009
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Source: International Herald Tribune
