Venture funding for science-based African health innovation
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Venture funding for science-based African health innovation
BACKGROUND While venture funding has been applied to biotechnology and health in high-income countries, it is still nascent in these fields in developing countries, and particularly in Africa. Yet the need for implementing innovative solutions to health challenges is greatest in Africa, with its enormous burden of communicable disease. Issues such as risk, investment opportunities, return on in...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMC International Health and Human Rights
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1472-698X
DOI: 10.1186/1472-698x-10-s1-s12