Prof Ndubuisi Ekekwe - Resilience, Sustainability and Entrepreneurship

In this episode, Professor Ndubuisi Ekekwe, a globally successful inventor, engineer, author, entrepreneur and Harvard Business Review contributor, speaks passionately about ‘Resilience, Sustainability and Entrepreneurship’. Professor Ekekwe outlined the elements required to build capabilities and overcome challenges in our society as Knowledge, Entrepreneurial Capitalism, Capital, Land and Labour. “When you have the capacity to create new knowledge you build a high level of reliance” says Professor Ekekwe. He highlights knowledge as the key to the resilience of nations. “Universities such as Harvard, MIT, John Hopkins, Princeton allow a nation to renew itself from one generation to the other” he says. He also outlines the critical need for entrepreneurs or pioneers to translate ideas into products and services “because in the end, the only thing that can overcome the problems in society are products and services. If you do not have people with the capacity to transform ideas and knowledge into products and services, societies cannot even function." "I want to challenge you…unless you build a nation of innovation we will not reach our promised land." says Professor Ekekwe.