The Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFund, has concluded plans to train sixty-nine academic researchers on solution driven research, innovation and sustainable development.
The year long programme, is on market driven solutions on development and fabrication of prototypes.
Executive secretary, TETFUND Sonny Echono said this yesterday in Abuja at the TETFAIR opening ceremony for the new researchers.
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Sonny Echono, said the TETFund Alliance for Innovation Research (TETFAIR) programme is designed to promote the institutionalisation of Research and Development.
He added that the target is to achieve the desired goal of producing entrepreneurs, supporting start-ups as well as creating a generation of innovators and wealth creators for national development.
Editor: Ena Agbanoma