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NOTAP Showcases Nigeria’s Innovation Potential At New York Stock Exchange

BY EUNICE ORIKE, Abuja

The Director-General of the National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP), Obiageli Amadiobi has showcased Nigeria’s technology and innovation potential at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), United States.

Amadiobi made the presentation during an appearance at the prestigious exchange, following an invitation by OPay Digital Services Limited in connection with its listing at the NYSE.

She used the opportunity to highlight Nigeria’s growing technology ecosystem and NOTAP’s efforts to transform research findings into commercially viable products and services.

The NOTAP boss outlined some of the agency’s key initiatives, including the commercialisation of research results from Nigerian knowledge institutions and the establishment of 69 Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer Offices (IPTTOs) across the country.

Amadiobi outlined some of the agency’s key initiatives, including the commercialisation of research results from Nigerian knowledge institutions and the establishment of 69 Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer Offices (IPTTOs) across the country.

She also highlighted the NOTAP-Industry Technology Transfer Fellowship (NITTF) and the Nigeria Outsourcing and Value Acceleration initiative, known as Project NOVA, which is designed to develop local expertise, improve skills and promote the outsourcing of Nigerian professionals across different sectors of the economy.

Amadiobi said Nigeria was open to technology-driven investments, urging global investors, Nigerians in the diaspora and multinational technology companies to partner with NOTAP to promote local innovations and facilitate the transfer of foreign technologies into the country.

She said Nigeria had the talent, research outputs and market potential required to compete globally, adding that NOTAP was working to connect local innovations with international investors and markets.

"Nigeria has the talent, the research outputs and the market, what we are building at NOTAP is the bridge that connects Nigerian ingenuity to global capital and global markets," she said.

The appearance at the NYSE, regarded as the world's largest stock exchange by market capitalisation, highlights efforts to attract international attention to Nigeria's innovation ecosystem and strengthen the country's participation in the global technology market.

It also aligns with the Federal Government's Renewed Hope Agenda, which places emphasis on technology transfer, local innovation and industrial development.

 

 

 

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