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Science and Technology Policy Institute (STEPI)
K-Innovation partnership: strengthening Ghana’s innovation system
Context
The K-Innovation partnership brought Korean and Ghanaian expertise together to examine innovation-support systems and inform the development of the Ghana Innovation and Research Commercialisation Centre.
The challenge
The program needed locally grounded research on Ghana’s technological innovation system and a practical foundation for institutional design and research commercialization.
Our contribution
The Heritors People Limited served as the Ghanaian consulting partner to STEPI, with Derrydean Dadzie leading its contribution.
What we delivered
Ghana-focused innovation-system research, project reports, coordination of local expert inputs and stakeholder engagement for the K-Innovation partnership and GIRC Centre master-planning process.
Outcome
The partnership produced documented Ghanaian research and expert inputs for the institutional planning process, alongside capacity-development activity. The Heritors People delivered the Ghanaian consulting contribution, led by Derrydean Dadzie.
Evidence
Supported by the STEPI service contract, K-Innovation research and project records, and July 2022 workshop correspondence.
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