Tag: innovation networks
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Dissertation: African Hubs as Assemblers of Technology Entrepreneurs
5 May 2017
Authors: Nicolas Friederici
Good news: my dissertation on African technology innovation hubs is now complete! The digital record is here, and the hardbound copy will shortly be deposited with Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries ...
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Hubs vs. Incubators: What Are the Pain Points for Impact and Efficiency?
28 December 2015
Authors: Nicolas Friederici
With tech entrepreneurship on the rise across Africa, efforts to support the agenda are evolving and diversifying. There has been quite a bit of debate—sometimes of the heated kind—about ...
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Harare’s Hubs: Excitement, Experimentation, and Many Open Questions
5 January 2015
Authors: Nicolas Friederici
During the interviews I conducted in Zimbabwe last October, many participants asked me: “Why pick Harare as a case study? Why not Nairobi or Lagos?” Indeed, Harare’s “ecosystem” is ...
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Let’s Work Together: Mobile Operators and Digital Startups in Africa
29 December 2014
Authors: Nicolas Friederici
Click here to view this post as it originally appeared on VC4Africa. We all know that early monetization and revenue generation are crucial for digital startups in Africa. ...
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Harare’s Fledgling Tech Entrepreneurs
14 December 2014
Authors: Nicolas Friederici
Tech entrepreneurship is definitely on the rise in Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, actually, this rise is not evenly distributed across Africa’s vast geography. Leaving aside South Africa, we can observe ...
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Kigali’s Evolving Tech Innovation… Ecosystem
25 November 2014
Authors: Nicolas Friederici
“Ecosystem” has become one of the most common terms in tech innovation. It rolls easily off the tongue, probably because it has a communal connotation, and evokes ideas such ...
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A Tech Innovation Hub in the Making: kLab and Its Many Roles and Stakeholders
2 November 2014
Authors: Nicolas Friederici
If you go to Rwanda and you’re interested in ICT and tech, chances are, you will soon pass through kLab, Kigali’s tech innovation hub. And so it was for ...
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