‘Metrics Don’t Tell Africa’s Story’: Scholar Calls for New Innovation Measures
12:14 16.09.2025 (Updated: 12:24 16.09.2025)
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‘Metrics Don’t Tell Africa’s Story’: Scholar Calls for New Innovation Measures
“From mechanic workshops to rural hospitals, ingenuity happens daily across Africa — life-changing solutions that statistics often ignore. The problem isn’t innovation itself, but the way the world measures it. Global indexes simply don’t do justice to Africa’s creativity.”
While patents and R&D dominate international yardsticks, Africa’s breakthroughs often emerge in informal spaces where necessity drives invention.
#GlobalSouthPole speaks with Dr. Abiodun Egbetokun, innovation policy scholar, on why Africa needs its own frameworks to recognize and measure what truly matters.
Discover how Africa can build indicators inspired by the Global South and rooted in its own realities.
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