underexplored ecosystems and develop them from scratch. Although resources in these locations remain scarce and we are yet to witness significant success stories emerging from them, a number of notable examples are Arusha, Kumasi, Durban, Mombasa and Abuja.
Hubs are concentrated in key cities but nascent ecosystem support structures in non-capital cities are emerging. Innovation hubs tend to be concen- trated in capital cities or economic centres, but a growing number of organisations are targeting secondary and tertiary urban centres to tap into
FIGURE 2: HUB CATEGORY BY SERVICES OFFERED, BY COUNTRY
Hubs running support programmes
Hubs o ff ering mainly co-working and community services
200
150
100
50
0
Country
FIGURE 3: BREAKDOWN OF HUBS IN AFRICA BASED ON BRITER INTELLIGENCE
Other 0.5%
Makerspace
1.2%
Hub Network
2.0%
Accelerator
11.4%
Incubator
32.9%
Innovation Hub
23.5%
Co-working Space
28.5%
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