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TECH HUBS IN AFRICA
HOW CAN THEY SUPPORT START-UPS ACROSS THE CONTINENT?
In partnership with
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Tech hubs in Africa: How can they support tech start-ups across the continent?
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Defining tech hubs
What tech hubs do
About ecosystems
EU-SPRI Forum, Early Career Research Conference 2014,
‘Ingenio PhD Days’
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How hubs create and measure value
Financial sustainability for hubs
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Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Around the Globe and Early-Stage Company Growth Dynamics.
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Social Tech Ecosystems in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Ibid.:
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SME Competitiveness Outlook 2018: Business Ecosystems for the Digital Age
Ibid op.cit
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Challenges and opportunities of incubators in West Africa: A guide to understanding support structures for entrepreneurs in West Africa
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Ibid op cit
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Ibid
Journal of Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law
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Ibid
BBC News
African Economic Outlook 2019,
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Ibid
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Generation Entrepreneur? The state of global youth entrepreneurship,
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Ibid
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Ibid.
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‘A common view of a typical [high-growth firm] is a small start-up in a high-tech sector that grows quickly over a sustained period through some favourable quality inherent to the firm, for example, a new advanced technology, a brilliant marketing innovation, or an extremely capable staff.’
High Growth Firms: Facts, Fiction and Policy Options for Emerging Economies,
Executive Summary, xix
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Technology innovation hubs and policy engagement
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Information Technology for Development
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Technological Forecasting & Social Change
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Innovation Hubs in Africa: An Entrepreneurial Perspective
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ECIS 2016 Proceedings
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Nigerian Anthropological and Sociological Practitioners Association 22nd Annual Conference
on Contours of Change, Modern Conflict and Mode of Production in Nigeria
op. cit. 2015 Venture Finance in Africa: The progress of early-stage high-potential growth companies
Do mLabs Still Make
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2017 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC),
Innovation Hubs in Africa
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Ibid
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Innovation Hubs in Africa
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Innovation Hubs in Africa: Assemblers of Technology Entrepreneurs
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Grants
Programme-based funding
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Agence Française de Développement
Consulting fees
Co-working fees
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Incubation fees and revenue sharing
Investment success fees
Equity through acceleration programmes
Event management fees
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Examples:
Training fees
Focus on the concept of start-up studio
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Build an online platform with three major features:
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Source
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op cit.
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Source
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op cit
Ibid
Ibid
Bridging the ‘Pioneer Gap’: The Role of Accelerators in Launching High-Impact Enterprises
Innovation Hubs in Africa
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Hub failure
Hub sustainability challenges
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Ibid
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Ibid
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The Development of an African Entrepreneurial and Startup ‘Hub’: A Case Study at Impact Hub Accra. op cit
Source
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HuffPost
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‘Once hub implementations began, leaders realized they needed to adapt their vision to local conditions. The issues that arose resulted specifically from tensions between aspirational hub visions and thorny hub realities.’
Nicolas Friederici
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Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship
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Ibid
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How can hub success be defined?
Should tech hubs focus on building ecosystems or creating start-ups?
What is the best package of support for tech hubs?
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How can the expectations and goals of hubs and funders be aligned?
Is a hub network better equipped to reach financial sustainability than a single hub?
At what stage of start-up development can tech hubs engage most effectively?
Should hubs invest directly in start-ups or focus on easing access to investors?
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Ibid
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Global Entrepreneurship Index 2018
African Economic Outlook
Economic Outlook, 2019
Nigerian Anthropological and Sociological Practitioners Association 22nd Annual Conference on Contours of Change, Modern Conflict and Mode of Production in Nigeria
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Diagnostic Toolkit
Bridging the ‘Pioneer Gap’: The Role of Accelerators in Launching High-Impact Enterprises
BBC News
Digital Kenya An Entrepreneurial Revolution in the Making
The role of Innovation Hubs taking start-ups from idea to business: the case of Nairobi
Social Tech Ecosystems in Sub-Saharan Africa
A Scan of South Africa’s Maker Movement
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Journal of Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law, 6
Innovation Hubs in Africa: Assemblers of Technology Entrepreneurs
DRUID17,
Innovation Hubs in Africa: An Entrepreneurial Perspective
Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, 23
EU-SPRI Forum, Early Career Research Conference 2014, ‘Ingenio PhD Days’
Generation Entrepreneur? The state of global youth entrepreneurship
High-Growth Firms: Facts, Fiction, and Policy Options for Emerging Economies
Challenges and opportunities of incubators in West Africa: A guide to understanding support structures for entrepreneurs in West Africa
A Model for Sustainable and Replicable ICT Incubators in Sub-Saharan Africa
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SME Competitiveness Outlook 2018: Business Ecosystems for the Digital Age
ECIS 2016 Proceedings
Information Technology for Development, 24
How Tech Hubs are helping to Drive Economic Growth in Africa
Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 131
Who is ICT Innovation For?
Hub In A Box: A Global Movement to Crowdsource Business Models for Sustainable Innovation Spaces
2017 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem for Technology Start-ups in Nairobi: Empirical analysis of Twitter networks of Start-ups and Support organizations
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Technology innovation hubs and policy engagement
The Development of an African Entrepreneurial and Startup ‘Hub’: A Case Study at Impact Hub Accra
2015 Venture Finance in Africa: The progress of early-stage high-potential growth companies
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Around the Globe and Early-Stage Company Growth Dynamics
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