African countries fare poorly in innovation ranking

[MUTARE, ZIMBABWE] Africa’s quest to use innovation for可持续的development could suffer as only eight countries in Sub-Saharan Africa were ranked among the top 100 in the latest全球创新指数（GII）。

GII上个月（7月10日）发行的GII是通过测量组件的成绩创新input such as human capital, as well as research and business sophistication and the results of innovation activities.

“African governments are not prioritising collection and collation of innovation information,”

布鲁诺·兰文（Bruno Lanvin），Insead

According to the index, which was published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Cornell University in the United States and INSEAD, a global business school, the African countries featured among the top 100 are Botswana, Kenya, Mauritius, Namibia, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania.

Out of the 126 countries included in the ranking, the bottom ten include Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Niger, Nigeria, Togo and Zambia. A total of 29 African countries were included in the index.

Bruno Lanvin, co-editor of the 2018 GII and executive director of INSEAD’s global indices, tellsscidev.netthatdata对于该报告，是通过各自部委，统计机构以及国际公共和私人资源从政府那里获得的。

A small number of economies that did not report enough innovation-related data had to be excluded so they would not bias the results, he explains — in this sense, the index offers countries an incentive to measure innovation properly and report the data that will allow comparison with others.

“In this case, Africangovernments不是优先考虑collection and collation of innovation information,” says Lanvin.

他将高性能国家的成功归因于其政府的作用。“这种表现的主要原因之一通常是随着时间的推移对创新议程的持续追求政策水平。然后，这转化为GII中衡量的创新输入和输出的改进。” Lanvin解释说。

GII还展示了某些经济体如何被认为是有效的创新者，这意味着它们通过小规模的创新最大化回报。例如，肯尼亚在创新排名中在全球排名78，但其创新效率排名为41。

根据兰文的说法，非洲国家大多有可能上升全球排名 - 如果他们继续支持创新预算并优先考虑创新报告 - 是博茨瓦纳，肯尼亚，毛里求斯，莫桑比克，卢旺达，卢旺达，南非，坦桑尼亚和突尼斯。

Francis Gurry, director-general of the WIPO, tellsscidev.net非洲的许多创新都丰富了，可以在金融中看到，无人机交付medicines或新的加热和18beplay storage solutions.

The report shows that grassroots communities in Sub-Saharan Africa are applying simple innovations to improve their production and use of wood fuels in ways that address practical needs alongside global challenges.

According to Yogi Naik, director of研究以及津巴布韦国立科学技术大学的创新，非洲的增长潜力目前不与投资相匹配。

“The greatest mishap that confronts Africa is its reluctance to dedicate massive budgets for technological and smart development,” says Naik. “The continent has a competitive human capital to drive innovations agenda.”

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