Promoting business incubators: The Way To Go

While Cameroon faces a steady population growth hitting some experts’ figure of 30 million inhabitants, the need for jobs and business occupations is becoming glaring, huge and urgent.
As part of the solution to weather the employment storm, showing in the horizon, the Ministry of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, Social Economy and Handicrafts (MINPMEESA) has been signing partnerships with State Universities to inspire incubators of businesses. A case in point was the CFA 70 million worth agreement with the Yaounde-based University recently to raise the spirits of startup incubators. 
That Government initiative came to buttress the on-going university programmes to train job creators and not only job seekers. Society is economically vibrant and socially stable when it can boost of relevant businesses, services and industries. Such overtures enable employment to occupy idle hands, provide utility products to satisfy human needs, and create wealth for stability and social progress.
It may be no news that many Cameroonians are in the exodus wave sacrificing lives in the Mediterranean Sea while they flee their African countries in desperate travels to cross deserts and seas for apparent greener pastures. Meanwhile, back home, economic survival may not really be as gloomy as many believe. Some economic luminaries have posited that the first mark on the chart of economic exploration is to identify a market for a particularly created need. Going by that theory, Africa, with its expanding population, does not lack a market for whatever social need one may have to craft. 
That is why it becomes imperative for authorities and young brains to promote business incubators to hatch startups and generate small businesses. Business incubators provide a supportive environment for early-stage companies to breed. The role of the State in the matter could be primordially required to include offering resources to beginners, providing mentorship to raise start-ups, enabling networking opportunities for initiators, and, essentially, facilitating most needed funding for promising businesses. 
But, why are we still where we are? What can be done to salvage the job and business aspiring generation at hand? Who has to play which role to industrialise Cameroon for employment and production overtures? These and many questions find an easy answer in the wind notably, The Will. And that willing spirit is materialised by making available pressing basic social needs including electricity, roads and water for communities. Wherever those basic needs abound, project and business builders will sprout for the betterment of society. Observably, there is no industry without electricity, no marketing without roads and no good health without water in quality and quantity.
Even circumscribing action to the cited basic need areas would still make a very fertile ground for startups. Additionally, the new promising areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the ICT domain would still require the basic necessities for sprouting and growth. 
One error that is often pointed out as a handicap to the industrialization is the school system. Some pundits say the Cameroon system is “overly bookish” while shadowing the technologically oriented sciences. Writers in the domain often take the example of China to praise their rightful inclination towards technology. There, “What can you do” is the privileged question rather than “What certificate have you”.
Weaving partnerships is said to be essential to build startups. That the Government has greeted a new dawn to encourage incubators is a welcome ingredient for the progress of the nation. It is left to the talented girls and boys, women and men to take the queue to create startups and make wealth for themselves and the nation. 
As gleaned through earlier researches, industrialising Cameroon requires investing in such areas as energy infra...