Business incubation needs a re-think


By Allon Raiz, Chief Executive Officer, Raizcorp


Explore this topic further with the launch of the
2017 African Economic Outlook: Entrepreneurship and Industrialisation in Africa.


A little more than 12 years ago I read an article about 981 “entrepreneurs” who had been through a brief new venture creation programme. According to the journalist’s investigation, not one of these would-be entrepreneurs who had been in that programme was in existence a year later. The journalist lamented that despite the obvious evidence that these high volume, low quality programmes were ineffectual, they were nevertheless prolific, wasting hundreds of millions of dollars every year.

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Global Skill Partnerships: A proposal for technical training in a mobile world

By Michael Clemens, Center for Global Development Migration can have benefits for everyone involved, but this is far from automatic. It requires new institutions, institutions designed for a world that moves. We propose Global Skill Partnerships (GSP) as a new way to make skilled migration more beneficial to migrant-destination countries, origin countries and migrants. A GSP is an up-front agreement between employers and/or governments in destination countries … Continue reading Global Skill Partnerships: A proposal for technical training in a mobile world