Story by Wellington Makonese
GOVERNMENT says it will continue instituting measures that allow for a thriving innovation ecosystem which is critical in spearheading knowledge-based industrialisation.
The Second Republic has made its thrust to establish innovation hubs and agro-industrial centres across the country as a measure to stir industrial growth.
The Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Innovation, Science and Technology Development, Professor Amon Murwira, who was on the ZBC News Current Affairs programme, ‘Face the Nation’ this Tuesday outlined the government’s investment model towards innovation.
“Through President Emmerson Mnangagwa, institutions of higher learning were tasked to establish innovation centres and agro-industrial parks, which is a continuous process. I must say over a million was injected first, and we have seen NUST in the process of constructing the biggest technovation centre which will be complete this October,” he said.
He also highlighted strategies in place to encompass the citizenry from all corners of the country in the development matrix.
“The thrust is leaving no one and no place behind. We have had people in villages contributing, for example the irrigation facility that was commissioned in Mash East. We take each and every brain even those who did not go to Polytechnics or universities. That’s why we have plants in Mwenezi and other rural areas to push the industrialisation,” he said.
Tertiary institutions have been at the forefront of establishing innovation and industrial hubs where prototypes are being developed to answer to the industrial needs of the country.
