Eastern Africa: Innovation Ecosystem

Population of 445Million approx. with 19 countries – The Innovation economics of the Eastern Africa subregion seek to accelerate socio-economic growth.

The Innovation economics of the Eastern Africa subregion seek to accelerate socio-economic growth through the tight integration of innovation management with governance, education, entrepreneurship and the society.

For global competitiveness, many nations are moving away from an industrial model of production towards a knowledge-based economy, therefore economics of innovation has become more and more relevant as it aims for rapid development and commercialization of ideas, open innovation, and how to facilitate forward-thinking policies which will create efficient innovation ecosystem for sustainable growth and profitability.

Afrinnovation would help governments, international agencies, businesses, academia, entrepreneurs and professional by using the unique approach of the combination of evidence-based, data-driven and system-oriented methodologies for sustainable value realization in the region.

Moreover, this approach would gauge impact and growth of regional innovation beyond assumption and perception, by engaging the use of verifiable and demonstrable on-the-ground facts and credible data with the aid of novel innovation management platforms like Innovation360’s Innosurvey, Ideation360, PESTLED360, Scenario360 etc. 

Coming up soon is our sub-region innovation index report bench-marked against global innovation index.