• Academic Institution

The Maker Space Foundation

Project Kwenza focuses on capacity building, developing skills and work experience for unemployed youth. Currently, the project is providing work experience for mechatronics students from Mangosuthu University of Technology requiring practical experience in order to graduate. Students are developing scarce skills, future skills, entrepreneurial education and developing pathways for employment with industry partners.

  • Stages of Support

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

  • Nonfinancial support delivery mechanism

    • Mentoring
    • Online / mobile
    • Direct Consulting Services
    • Co-working space
    • Cohort or group support
    • Competitions / prizes
    • Peer to Peer / Network-based Support

  • Nonfinancial Support

    • Leadership development
    • Access to networks and partners
    • Marketing support or market research
    • Business strategy and planning
    • Needs assessment
    • Performance management
    • Ideation
    • Investor showcases
    • Technology development or adoption
    • Media exposure
    • Product certification

  • Investment Instruments

    • Equity
    • 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
    • Women entrepreneurs
    • Science, engineering or invention based businesses
    • Citizen empowerment
    • Youth entrepreneurs

  • Impact objectives

    • Access to education
    • Capacity building
    • Community development
    • Employment generation
    • Income/productivity growth
    • Sustainable energy
    • Access to information
    • Equality and empowerment
    • Pollution prevention and waste management

  • Verticals

    • AgTech
    • Hardware
    • CleanTech
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