NASENI-PICTT DELTA-2: Renewed Vigour For Commercialization Of Nigerian Products

The National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) has erstwhile again took steps to fortify the Nigeria’s quest to summation the commercialization of each Research and Development (R&D) outcomes to boost the Nigerian system successful antithetic sectors.

This mandate is encapsulated successful a well- documented collaboration betwixt NASENI and the Presidential Implementation Committee connected Technology Transfer (NASENI-PICTT) which precocious launched the DELTA-2 Project Second Call for Proposals, focusing connected Commercialization of each R&D, a determination that has intensified since the emergence of Khalil Suleiman Halilu arsenic Executive Vice Chairman of NASENI,

The Delta-2 Project is simply a bilateral collaboration by the Federal Government of Nigeria done NASENI-PICTT and the Czech Republic done the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (TA CR) and it targets submissions from innovators, exertion entrepreneurs and researchers successful Nigeria crossed mining, agriculture, precocious manufacturing, subject and engineering, etc.

The First Call for Proposals nether the Delta-2 task was launched successful the twelvemonth 2022, pursuing which grants were disbursed by NASENI to winners of the approved projects to standard up their enterprises, with notable achievements made.

Under the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Tinubu administration, the Nigerian authorities has resolved to diversify the system with exertion and entrepreneurship with circumstantial enactment for innovators, which volition promote home-grown productivity, trim dependence connected overseas products and make jobs for the teeming younker successful Nigeria.

During the motorboat of the 2nd telephone for Proposals successful Abuja past week, the NASENI boss, Halilu, referred to the occurrence of the erstwhile DELTA-2 sponsored projects that are already serving arsenic catalysts to the Nigeria’s innovation ecosystem, adding that the  programme is yielding results.

“Today, we tin constituent to the stories of 12 beneficiaries from the First Call, Nigerians who are moving connected divers projects crossed our country. From renewable vigor solutions to precocious materials, from cultivation technologies to manufacturing innovations, these projects attest to the powerfulness of applied probe to lick existent problems, make jobs, and present products and services that conscionable the needs of our people”, helium said.

Halilu noted that what makes DELTA 2 unsocial is its absorption connected outcomes. “It is not probe for the involvement of research; it is probe with intent and marketplace successful mind. It is probe that leads to caller knowledge, caller skills and caller products. It is probe that bridges the spread betwixt laboratory and the marketplace, betwixt ideas and impact.

“It is besides a span betwixt nations — betwixt Czech enterprises and Nigerian innovators, betwixt European expertise and African creativity. Together, we are gathering partnerships that accelerate progress, foster communal respect and infinite possibilities for some our countries”, helium emphasized.

The astir captious portion of the task is possibly its imaginable to respond not lone to the existent needs of the society, but besides expect the challenges of time — from clime alteration to integer translation and this is 1 facet that researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs successful Nigeria tin exploit to heighten their publication to marque the state much applicable wrong the comity of nations.

The task is besides a testament of broad committedness crossed each Ministries, Department and Agencies (MDAs) nether the existent administration, which shared the imaginativeness of NASENI to grow Nigeria’s technological and entrepreneurial landscape.

In this regard, the Minister  of Innovation, Science and Technology, Chief Uche Geoffrey Nnaji,  successful his remarks astatine the juncture said  “The taxable is clear, it is to make probe outcomes that volition pb to caller products, caller processes, use results that straight heighten Nigeria’s competitiveness, make jobs and unfastened caller markets astatine location and abroad.’

The divers scope of the projects are successful captious sectors  of agriculture and nutrient technology, renewable energy, mining and concern development, wellness and wellness technologies, precocious manufacturing, integer mobility, clime exertion and defence innovations, reflecting the determination of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to bequeath  a lasting legacy  with his  Renewed Hope Agenda.

This task appears to beryllium a interruption from the past wherever erstwhile probe materials are near to languish connected shelves. It appears to constituent to a forward-looking attack to boost maturation and improvement by exploiting the intelligence capabilities successful the country, bringing the nation’s products to the planetary marketplace and making the state much competitive.

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