Innovation Is Only Innovation When It Reaches Someone
In May, Nairobi hosted the inaugural STRI4Society Week—bringing researchers, innovators, students, industry and policymakers together around a deceptively simple idea: connecting science with society. The programme included emerging technologies, youth STEM activities, climate solutions, start-up pitches, research commercialisation and discussions about moving ideas from laboratories into real-world use. There is something important hidden in those …