Good point you make there. The flip side though is that most American companies are realizing that outsourcing manufacturing totally to Asia was a mistake from an innovation perspective. They have lost out on one of the key components of innovation - Process Innovation.

Of course from our perspective we don't even have that capacity to outsource yet so maybe a great opportunity to start without any legacy systems and thoughts...ala Mpesa.

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On Feb 15, 2013, at 1:04 PM, Kivuva <Kivuva@transworldafrica.com> wrote:

When the Digital boxes are designed in Kenyan universities, and manufactured in China, that is good enough. We don't need to setup a huge factory if we don't have the means. At least, that will be a starting point. Many USA and European companies have their manufacturing in China, including Apple, HP, DELL e.t.c.

Don't forget the golden rule of innovation "Imitate then innovate". Tata and Huawei, and ZTE perfected the art, and now they are bigger than the economy of most African countries combines.

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