Solution to industrial problems left to rot in archives – Ace Ankomah

Private legal practitioner, Ace Ankomah has suggested to industry to start digging out archives on research filed by the universities and bring them to life to solve gaps in the system.

He explained that those hidden documents had vast wealth of solutions to the Ghana's problems, adding that “it is the mind that develops a nation and not resources."

Research, he said, plays a big role in effective structural transformation of the socio-economic environment of countries across the world, but decried that the phenomenon is downplayed in Ghana.

“Why do I say that? Every year, literally hundreds of students engage in supervised project work, thesis, and dissertations, all of which identify and actually solve, at least on paper, many of the problems that confront us.”

The application of new technologies drawn from evidence-based research in areas such as agriculture and manufacturing has transformed many economies, he adds.

He, therefore, wondered why dozens of research works conducted in all fields of academia in the country ranging from engineering, sociology, sciences, and humanities, among others, remain in the archives.

Ace Ankomah, speaking at the University of Ghana’s congregation, said the research must be made to feed industry — which he says has failed to create the linkages.