{"id":37653,"date":"2018-06-06T15:19:20","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T15:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/government-to-launch-research-fund-for-innovation\/"},"modified":"2018-06-08T10:48:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T10:48:45","slug":"government-to-launch-research-fund-for-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/government-to-launch-research-fund-for-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Government to launch  research fund for innovation activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Premier was speaking Wednesday in Kigali while officiating the launch of Africa Innovation Summit (AIS) held under the theme; \u201cAddressing Africa&#8217;s Challenges\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The AIS is an Africa-wide and home grown initiative aimed at harnessing the innovation potential on the continent. It also aims at mobilizing people and especially those with capacity to promote and build an enabling environment for innovation in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Ngirente said that Rwanda is taking strides in building a robust ecosystem for innovation in order to help the country meet its aspirations of a knowledge-based economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have also created a conducive legal and regulatory framework for doing business, invested in infrastructure and improved health system. All these have started to boost innovative activities in the Country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that next week the governmentwill launch a Research and Innovation Fund.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am pleased to share that we will officially launch our National Research and Innovation Fund next week that we believe shall serve as a major research funding vehicle through which research and research-based innovation activities shall be supported,\u201d he revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Ngirente said that Africa has consistently invested in infrastructure development, agriculture, conducive policy and regulatory environment to attract private investment. <\/p>\n<p>He oberved that the continent\u2019s many development challenges can be addressed through innovation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfrica has not been able to leverage private sector as an engine for transformation. The fact is, the only way to resolving these and other challenges facing African countries is innovation. We must innovate. We must build robust ecosystems for innovation,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>The three-day Summit brought together investors, policy makers, researchers, academics, business community, youth, innovators and thinkers from around the World.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25679 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ry6b9893-2-8d4b0.jpg\" alt=\"Ngirente said that Government of Rwanda is due to launch a National Research and Innovation Fund\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25680 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ry6b0008-3-287c3.jpg\" alt=\"People participating in the innovation exhibition on the sidelines of the summit.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25681 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ry6b9912-2-dbf07.jpg\" alt=\"Officials pose for a photo after the opening of the summit\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister, Dr. Edouard Ngirente has said that Government of Rwanda is due to launch a National Research and Innovation Fund which to serve as a major research funding. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[197],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-john-mbaraga"],"bylines":[{"id":197,"name":"John Mbaraga","slug":"john-mbaraga","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":19}],"contributors":[{"id":197,"name":"John Mbaraga","slug":"john-mbaraga","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":19}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37653"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37653"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}