Writing + Media
Commentary on innovation policy, research systems and development, written for a general audience alongside my academic publications.
2026
- From Academic Knowledge to Policy Impact: Putting Pracademic Expertise into Practice, DMU Doctoral College Blog (on our co-organised Policy Impact Day)
2025
- The lecturers learning to spot AI misconduct, BBC (Oct)
- Experts advocate curriculum re-design for entrepreneurial education, Leadership (Oct)
- Scholars call for redesign of university curriculum in Nigeria, Nigerian Tribune (Oct)
- ‘Metrics don’t tell Africa’s story’: scholar calls for new innovation measures, Sputnik Africa (Sep)
- Visible but Unrecognized: How Global Innovation Indexes Fail to Capture Africa's Creativity, Sputnik Africa (Sep)
- Africa's innovations are overlooked because global measures don't fit: what needs to change, The Conversation (Jul)
- Experts advocate entrepreneurship education as catalyst for economic dev't, Leadership (Apr)
- Entrepreneurship education, catalyst for economic development — Experts, Nigerian Tribune (Apr)
2024
- Nigeria's universities need to revamp their entrepreneurship courses — they're not meeting student needs, The Conversation (Oct)
- Despite the drawbacks, Chinese investments in Africa are worth it. Just., LSE Africa Blog (Jul)
- Apprenticeship schemes to support post-COVID employment recovery in Africa's manufacturing sector, UNIDO
2023
- Using Matthew effect to unlock Nigerian universities' potential, The Guardian Nigeria (Oct)
- 'Government has no business in business' is fallacious, The Guardian Nigeria (Oct)
- On industrial development, the long term is sacred, The Guardian Nigeria (Apr)
- Dear next president, this is the Nigeria you will lead, The Guardian Nigeria (Mar)
2022
- How to connect social science research to policy in Nigeria, The Conversation (Mar)
- Nigeria needs more social science research: how to boost output, The Conversation (Jan)
2021
- Relevance of value-added agriculture to development goals, The Guardian Nigeria (Oct)
2020
- NACETEM to bridge gap between institutions, informal sector, The Punch (Dec)
- ‘Nigeria weak on innovation infrastructure’, The Nation (Nov)
- Three lessons from Nigeria on how to boost youth entrepreneurship, SciAf Mag (Feb)
2019
- Nigeria has a weak innovation system, NACETEM says, The Punch (Sep)
- Nigeria, dumping ground for obsolete technologies — research, The Punch (Sep)
- Nigeria, dumping ground for obsolete technologies — NACETEM, Vanguard (Sep)
- NACETEM identifies barriers to innovation in Nigeria, Vanguard (Sep)
- South Africa and Nigeria’s innovation performance compared, SA-Biz Innovation Survey (Aug)
2017
- How to choose the right statistical tests, AuthorAID (Sep)
2008
- Reliance on Natural Resources is Africa’s Undoing, African Executive
- Linking Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) for Development, African Executive
- Making Science, Technology and Innovation Relevant, African Executive
Video
Selected talks and features on YouTube, collected in the My Features playlist.
Blog
Earlier, longer-form posts are archived at blog.egbetokun.com.