Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Elioda Tumwesigye in a cabinet presentation on Monday revealed that more than 1,000 applicants in 2020 responded to the ministry’s annual call for innovative ideas that aims at targeting new innovations that are viable for commercialization. The Ministry of Science and Technology (MOSTI) was established in June of 2016, and was subsequently equipped with an annual Innovation Fund of UGX 50 billion to facilitate the country’s freshest innovations. The government has been reliably allocating this sum to the ministry each year. MOSTI has since 2016 been appealing to Uganda’s innovators to pitch their ideas for…
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