[kictanet] Innovation & Patents

[Adam Nelson]

Apple: Designed in California, Built in China

Kenya can follow either path but innovation/prototyping have almost nothing
to do with mass production when it comes to the tech industry.  That's why
it's mind numbing to hear all this talk of creating thousands of jobs
through manufacturing.

Kenya is in a position to follow California with high value innovation
careers but instead the government appears to be focused on following China
with low-value mass labor.

The irony is that the low-value mass labor of electronics production in
Asia is already being displaced by robots so by the time the infrastructure
is here, the industry will have already moved on beyond mass labor anyway.

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On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 1:20 AM, Philip Adar <philip.adar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Listers,
>
> I am not sure if the attached statistics report is accurate, but it seems
> no new patents are coming up anywhere in Africa apart from South Africa?
>
> One would wonder, are we building technology parks so that we can start
> inventing or should it be the inventions that should drive the development
> of technology parks?
>
> --
> Regards
>
> Philip Adar
>
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