Building A Thriving Innovation Economy
We have defined four strategic pillars which capture our priorities for the next ten years - supporting sustainability of hubs, catalysing innovation-friendly policies, building a body of innovation knowledge and building our internal capacity.
One of the resounding themes that came out over the course of our team, community and partner conversations was the need for contextualisation. We are excited to explore what it means to run a relevant, high impact sustainable hub in Africa, and support new and existing hubs to do so.
The last few years have seen the introduction of startup policies, innovation policies, data policies and so on, across the continent. There is a role for the AfriLabs community and our partners to ensure that these policies favour innovation and that they are implemented as intended. Our efforts to catalyse the innovation economy are for nought if we do not ensure that existing and proposed policies support that innovation. We recognise the need for open data. We want to collaborate with the entire African Innovation ecosystem to curate a knowledge base for the continent, as well as create a framework for other stakeholders to do the same. Our dream is that all innovators, entrepreneurs and their support systems will contribute and benefit from this ambitious goal.
Finally, we recognise that we need to strengthen our internal capacity to better position ourselves to tackle the task ahead. Building a thriving innovation economy is a mammoth task that requires us to have the right processes, right team and right resources.
We are excited that our partners from across the continent and the rest of the world have already begun working with us to realise our four core priorities, which align with their own missions and we invite more partners to sign on. We would love to have you.
Building A Thriving Innovation Economy - Setting Africa up for Success.
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