• Capacity Development Provider

Innovate Durban

The Innovator Support Programme is a 6-month accelerated mentorship programme focusing on the development of innovators, whilst supporting the development of their current innovation.

  • Stages of Support

    • Idea
    • Start-up
    • Early
    • Growth
    • Mature

  • Nonfinancial support delivery mechanism

    • Mentoring
    • Classroom / seminar training
    • Cohort or group support
    • Peer to Peer / Network-based Support

  • Nonfinancial Support

    • Access to networks and partners
    • Marketing support or market research
    • Business strategy and planning
    • Ideation
    • Technology development or adoption
    • Media exposure

  • Intervention Type

    • Provide nonfinancial services to entrepreneurs directly
    • Promote and educate about entrepreneurship
    • Limited support for prototyping innovations

  • Sectors of Focus

    • Sector agnostic

  • Stakeholder or Business Model Focus

    • Base of the pyramid
    • Social enterprise
    • Women entrepreneurs
    • Science, engineering or invention based businesses
    • Accessibility
    • Advocacy
    • Citizen empowerment
    • Rural communities
    • Gender inclusion
    • Youth entrepreneurs
    • Urban communities
    • Resiliency / climate change
    • Ethical sourcing
    • Minority or previously excluded population

  • Impact objectives

    • Capacity building

  • Verticals

    • AgTech
    • Data analytics
    • E-commerce
    • FinTech
    • Hardware
    • Software as a service (SaaS)
    • CleanTech
    • EdTech
    • Biotech
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