Africa has the potential to invent, innovate and foster a thriving technology and research entrepreneurship ecosystem. Entrepreneur, Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of iVacBio Dr. Sibongile Gumbi, reckons that Botswana’s top ranking in the 2018 Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEI) is testament to the possibilities the country presents for entrepreneurship participation in the economy. Dr Gumbi, whose career has spanned the technology innovation value chain starting from idea creation to having products in the market has held numerous posts in the area of technology and innovation management including Group Executive, Biotechnology and Manager, Business Development and Commercialisation at the Medical Research Council (South Africa) is a Fellow of the eighth class of the African Leadership Initiative and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Her start-up company manufactures vaccines against prevalent livestock diseases. During her presentation, she noted that though bearing the capability to diversify the economy, entrepreneurship needs a sturdy rock-bed created by government through policy and regulation, creating a healthy ecosystem for star-up businesses to compete and thrive. She was speaking at the recent Botswana Institute for Technology Research and Innovation (BITRI) public seminar on the topic “Leveraging on the Innovation Ecosystem - Technology Transfer and Commercialization;…