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Botswana Innovation Hub (BIH) chief executive officer, Allan Boshwaen has urged information technology innovators to come up with entrepreniual and innovative ideas.

Speaking at the launch of D&O Digital proprietary LTD, this week, Boshwaen noted that an innovation had no value until an ambitious entrepreneur builds a business model, which turns it into a product or service that customers would buy. 

“If you can’t turn an innovative idea into something that creates a customer, then it’s worthless. Our problem is not that there isn’t enough innovation. It is that we do not have enough entrepreneurs starting new businesses,” he said.

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