For lack of space, the record numbers of postgraduate doctoral students produced at the Institute are squeezed into corridors and throughways in the ageing, modernist block –chairs pressed up against walls at overflowing desks, as they work on their theses.
The Institute was established as a lead institution in a national, triple-helix industry, government and university initiative in 2007 and has been described as the “innovation chasm” between research and development, the burden of its past success threatens to overwhelm it.
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The Institute’s plans for sustainable growth and continued partnerships with industry and the government have been placed in jeopardy, by failing infrastructure, preservation and maintenance of crucial housing and equipment.
Support in this regard, would enable INI to strengthen its position as the pre-eminent Institute for the study of the relatively new science of the extremely small (nanotechnology) in Africa, situated at the heart of a global network of researchers and product-developers worldwide.
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