The Ghana Climate Innovation Centre’s (GCIC) annual thought-leadership programme, ‘Incubating Innovation 2020’,was held at the British Council with its focus on the state of the country’s entrepreneurial ecosystem today.
The event brought together actors in the green entrepreneur ecosystem to brainstorm on solutions that will enable the sector to play its role effectively in the country’s socio-economic development.
The Executive Director of GCIC, Ruka Sanusi, in her welcome address noted that Ghana’s entrepreneurial ecosystem is yet to truly fulfil the mantra that the private sector is ‘the engine of growth’ in spite of the presence of numerous business hubs and start-up programmes which abound.
It is for this reason that incubators are important to groom and nurture private sector actors to be viable, competitive and create jobs to absorb the growing number of unemployed youth in the economy, Sanusi added.
Director for the National Entrepreneurs Innovation Plan (NEIP) Franklin Owusu-Karikari told the assemblage that NEIP is an agency under the newly created Business Development Ministry, and has over the past three years trained 19,000 entrepreneurs across the country – including those in the green economy.
Source: thebftonline.com
