• A delegation from GNCCI has paid a courtesy call on the Director-General (D-G) of the CSIR to discuss business opportunities and strengthen relationship.
• One of the key functions of the CSIR is to transfer its technologies and innovations to support the private sector for industrial growth.
• GNCCI is established by a Legislative instrument with the mandate to ensure the growth and profitability of businesses in Ghana

Executives of the Accra Branch of the Ghana Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GNCCI) has paid a courtesy call on the Director-General (D-G) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).

• A number of local plant breeders and research scientists have had to deal with ownership rights of their breeds from people who ‘steal’ their works without acknowledgment.

• Local Plant Breeders will soon have no cause to worry as CSIR has commenced advocacy for the implementation of the PVP system.

• The PVP system is a law that seeks to protect the intellectual property rights of breeders of new varieties of plants. 

‘Tolerate customers when they express frustrations at your product’

• Responding to customer frustrations is critical in sustaining a business
• Honey traders should consider their responses to frustrations and make amends if there is the need

Honey traders have been urged by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to be tolerant and ready to answer their customers’ frustrations if they want to sustain the consumption of their products.

Don’t fear atomic energy - Dr. Afriyie urges Ghanaians

• It is high time we turned our attention to atomic energy as another way of generating electricity.
• There is no need to fear atomic energy since it has lots of benefits as compared with the usage of gas energy.

Dr. Kwaku Afriyie, the Minister of Environment, Science, Technology, and Innovation (MESTI) has urged Ghanaians to disabuse their minds about the fear of atomic energy as an alternative source of power generation.

Mr. Emmanuel Deteah, the Head of the National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) in the Central Region is urging agribusiness players to adopt digital marketing platforms to promote their Orange Fleshed Sweet Potatoes (OFSP) businesses.

At a two-day workshop organised for agribusiness players in the Central Region on OFSP, Mr. Deteah, urged the need to embrace the new way of marketing on the internet and expand knowledge on the usage of smartphones to do marketing.

According to him, “Now, facebook has a number of features beyond just posting pictures and receiving many likes from your relations at the expense of your OFSP business. Nobody pays anybody to advertise on facebook”.