Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) Entrepreneurship Development Academy (EDA)

The Entrepreneurship Development Academy is the heart of entrepreneurial development and thinking at GIBS. The Academy specializes in understanding entrepreneurship in constraint, enabling business owners to understand the environment within which they work, and thrive within it. We work with entrepreneurs in both the formal and informal sectors, at various phases of their business development, from start up through to high impact growth. We have particular expertise in women, township, social and green entrepreneurship, with the development of young entrepreneurs as a foundational theme across our portfolio. The Academy has an extensive research portfolio, leading the first national mapping study of social enterprises in South Africa, and with numerous publications in the green economy, social and youth entrepreneurship.