By contrast, Mauritius seems to have leapfrogged these developments and extracted their common essence, which is the ability to identify intellectual property and transact it. In some sense being a microeconomy on an island, off the African coast, has forced a refinement to essentials and an orientation outward towards client networks in India, China, France and the United Kingdom amongst others, whose appetite is to interact with sub-Saharan Africa on all dimensions of intellectual property.