Vol. 7, Issue 2, Part I (2025)

This article encourages Zimbabwean research institutes and universities to place heavy emphasis on biotechnology research and development (R&D) work that leads to novel products and processes that can generate high economic value for society at large. The novel output can also bring financial windfalls when commercialised effectively. The R&D interventions and subsequent output could be in nutrition supplements that mitigate certain health ailments; in innovative feeds that boost productivity, bio-fertilisers that meet growing customer preferences as well as processes that reduce costs thereby boosting enterprise profitability. Universities with biotechnology degree courses and that also conduct biotechnology research within Zimbabwe are shared and compared. Africa and global success stories are also given so they soundly act in buttressing the author’s call of generating income, job creation and fiscal injections through upscaled R&D commercialisation. The link with sectoral and overall development; resultant job creation, enterprise creation, injection into fiscus and overall economic development as impact parameters are covered by the article.