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    "id": 1476434,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1476434/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) James Nyikal",
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    "content": "In Africa, people see universities as institutions for training young people, which is a second mandate. The first mandate of universities is to create new knowledge. How then do we apply it to our industries? With this technopolis idea, you can apply new knowledge and link it with industries to immediately improve its production and commercialisation. This will improve production for consumption, export, foreign exchange and employment. This is something that we should encourage. This Act creates a framework which will ensure that those technopolises link with universities and industries and, therefore, generate or improve innovation. It is something we should support. I agree with the previous speaker that in ideal circumstances, this is not an area where we should allocate a huge amount of money from the taxpayer’s kitty. Maybe, as we look through this Act, we need to find a way to get more funding from industries other than from the taxpayers' kitty. Eventually, if innovation occurs and knowledge is transformed into production, the industries and big companies are the ones to benefit. The intellectual property rights can be shared between the innovators and the industry so that they can benefit. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I think this is an idea that we should support and encourage. We will look at this and see how we can get more money from the industry than taxpayers’ money. If we go towards that direction, people will see them as a creation of new towns using taxpayers' money, which will not serve the purpose for which it has been conceived. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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