Project Innovation to Market Program is designed to create a sustainable innovation environment in Nigeria by integrating support systems. By working together with researchers and innovators under the auspices of an innovation consortium, it seeks to harness ideas in Nigeria.
Request for Applications
Do you have a terrific innovation that you think can disrupt the current normal, solve current societal problems, market processes efficient? Then come on board to the innovation-to-market Programme.
Project Innovation to Market supports innovations from research, and also innovations resulting from non-procedural activities.
The objective of this project is to allocate resources so that inventions, regardless of their stage, can be fostered until they are ready for the market. When everything is set, the inventor collaborates with a focused project team to design the commercialization strategies.
In order to expose innovators to training on how to build bankable firms that may attract large investments, this project will also develop a self-sustaining incubator program for innovators who wish to take their innovations to market via a startup.
Innovative ideas from Nigerian youth, women, and people with disabilities will receive special consideration (PWD).
Eligibility Requirements
Project Innovation to Market will support innovators with:
- Training
- Intellectual Property (IP) filing
- Minimum Viable Product Development
- Business Registration
- Seed funding for spinoffs/start-ups and numerous other resources.
Benefits
The Innovation to Market Programme offers You Access to:
- Training to make your innovation market ready.
- Funding for prototyping of up to 2 Million Naira.
- Intellectual property (IP) protection filing for the innovation
- Innovation Product managers to guide through the entire process
- Startup Incubator & Startup funding
- Co-working Space within the University of Lagos
- Full support in linking your innovation to industry
Note: The project is fully funded by the UK’s Research and Innovation Systems for Africa (RISA) and implemented by the Innovation and Technology Management Office (ITMO) of the University of Lagos.
Application Timeline
Application Deadline: March 30th, 2023
How to Apply
