Kiota Social Innovation Center (KiotaSIC) aspires to be the front door to sustainable innovation in Africa. We are aiming to elevate a new generation of entrepreneurs capable of driving impactful and sustainable innovations. we support entrepreneurs from all walks of life and help them grow with that extra bit of ambition, efficiency and impact through entrepreneurship and innovation, invention plays the critical role in creating solutions to some of our biggest challenges –from creating medical technology essential to saving lives in rural areas, to developing more efficient energy consumption to address climate change while we continue to foster innovation by bridging the gap between academic research, the market and corporate innovation.
We’ve seen how invention leads to entrepreneurship, the products of which create economic opportunity and sustainable livelihoods and allow us to better compete in the global economy. We see the importance of providing all individuals, no matter their backgrounds, the opportunity to become inventors and entrepreneurs, participating in and benefitting from the outputs of the invention ecosystem and the opportunity to realize their full potential to contribute to positive change; and the need to accelerate the innovation process to address critical challenges including climate change, equitable access to health, and the right to a sustainable livelihood for all. But we’ve also seen that these opportunities have not been open to all, preventing us from leveraging the full diversity of potential solutions and limiting efforts at fostering more inclusive prosperity. It has become clear that these issues – inclusivity, innovative solutions, jobs, entrepreneurship, and economic resilience – are priorities for us. We are working to support inclusive, equitable invention ecosystem that inventors and entrepreneurs need to thrive. We need to engage all potential inventors, which means we must prioritize inclusion so that the full population can participate in and benefit from tomorrow’s innovations. We also need to address the challenges of our resource-constrained planet by intentionally inventing for sustainability.
Our work of strengthening the invention ecosystem consists of two pathways:
Together these pathways can yield a pipeline of people and businesses that create jobs, foster resilient economies, and tackle our big challenges. These outcomes create a virtuous cycle that can power our economy in the 21 st century. We are keen on inclusive ecosystem, ensuring that inventors and entrepreneurs from underserved communities, including women, have equal opportunity to capture the value of their ideas by translating them into products and businesses, both for their own personal growth and for the benefit of the country at large.
We are active in a variety of areas:
The services provided are covering all types of services which are part of an innovation center: ecosystem services, technology services and business services.
Services, specifically common for KiotaSIC are:
