Challenges in transferring european business and technology models to the developing southern african regions

The Southern African governments are striving to take-up, promote and integrate technological and business research results and solutions from more developed regions into regional markets. Considering the long legacy of pro-active European research, a profound effort is put in by both SADC states and European stakeholders in transfer European research results into African markets. So far, it has been a tough way with very low success rate as well as lack of tangible benefit for the masses. The paper presents a high level approach by highlighting two main challenges facing SADC to adopt European research outcomes; ‘Regional market dynamics’ and ‘Technology selection and sustainable integration’. Within this paper these challenges are detailed for ICT inclusion. Two cases from waste management and the medical sector are compared within a Domain Scope Segment framework.