• Capacity Development Provider

Innovate Durban

The Youth Innovation Challenge is an annual Innovation Challenge aimed at developing innovators, it includes workshops focused on: design thinking, solutions development, business plan development and pitching training. Cash prizes awarded for best solutions.

  • Stages of Support

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

  • Nonfinancial support delivery mechanism

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

  • Nonfinancial Support

    • Leadership development
    • Access to networks and partners
    • Business strategy and planning
    • Ideation

  • Investment Instruments

    • Grant

  • Intervention Type

    • Provide nonfinancial services to entrepreneurs directly
    • Promote and educate about entrepreneurship

  • Sectors of Focus

    • Sector agnostic

  • Stakeholder or Business Model Focus

    • Social enterprise
    • Science, engineering or invention based businesses
    • Youth entrepreneurs

  • Impact objectives

    • Capacity building
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