The African Science, Technology and Innovation Endowment Fund (ASTIEF), along with the African Science to Business Challenge (ABSC) were launched at the second Science with Africa Conference last week (23-25 June) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
They aim to motivate inventors and innovators and spur on the development of sustainable industries and enterprises for the continent, according to Aida Opoku-Mensah, director of the ICT, Science and Technology Division at UNECA, which organised the conference.
