“Many valuable ideas remain informal adaptations or unfinished prototypes, even when they have the potential to improve inclusion for countless others.” ⚙️🛑
Why does localised, grassroots MedTech consistently struggle to move from a raw concept to a viable market product? In our featured article in Special Kids magazine, we address this specific innovation bottleneck.
The text frames The Centre for Inclusive Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) as an institutional bridge built to close this exact gap. Grassroots creators—such as therapists, practitioners, and individuals with lived experience—frequently design brilliant solutions but lack access to industrial technical support, testing facilities, and manufacturing pathways.
The article details how the CIIE provides the necessary middleware (design engineering, prototyping, and regulatory pathway navigation) to transform raw adaptations into scalable, field-tested assets. To scale African innovation, we must invest in the structural pathways that take these unfinished prototypes seriously.
🔗 Access the complete published feature article here: https://ow.ly/VrP450Zq2MC
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