Project Title: Establishment of Ifakara Innovation Space
Project Description: An attractive physical space leverages the Ifakara Health institute’s wealth of experience and expertise of health research, public health measures, biomedical engineering, clinical trials and public health technologies to develop a sustainable ecosystem for innovation and entrepreneurship that is crucial to improve health, create wealth and reduce poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. The overall objective is to create a blooming culture of entrepreneurship and innovation, producing solutions that contribute to the improvement of local community wellbeing... An attractive physical space leverages the Ifakara Health institute’s wealth of experience and expertise of health research, public health measures, biomedical engineering, clinical trials and public health technologies to develop a sustainable ecosystem for innovation and entrepreneurship that is crucial to improve health, create wealth and reduce poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. The overall objective is to create a blooming culture of entrepreneurship and innovation, producing solutions that contribute to the improvement of local community wellbeing and sustainable development in the Kilombero valley. We'll create an entrepreneurship ecosystem, a pipeline of innovators, and a process to support translation of their innovations into products. Theory of Change for the Ifakara Innovation Hub: Tanzania innovation ecosystem is currently suffering from limited skills and technology gap on early stage ideas and incubation supports in addressing local community challenges especially youth and women. If the innovation community across Kilombero valley and the entire country make effective and efficiency use of the Ifakara Innovation hub programmes of skills development, technology transfer, incubation and development support, internship as well as co-working community platform, then entrepreneurship behavior and digital solutions (products and services) will be highly improved for local development. The success of this proposed intervention depends on the invited stakeholders such as donors and partners to provide supports, the local innovation community become more interested, the government regulatory bodies and policy agrees, and other relevant private sectors become attracted in this proposed intervention, then the risks in improving the local community wellbeing through the Ifakara innovation hub will be reduced.
Principal Investigator : Honorati Masanja
Department Name : TCB
Time frame: (2019-09-23) - (2024-12-31)
Swiss Federal Department of Foreign (FDFA) (Normal)
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