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Project Innovation to Market Program Application (Receive up to N2M Prototype Funding)

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Project Innovation to Market

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

To apply Click Here

 

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Business Resilience Programme (BRP) 2023 Application for Women Entrepreneurs Organized by FATE Foundation (Grant Funding for 200 Participants).

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Business Resilience Programme

FATE Foundation in partnership with Google.org has launched the Business Resilience Programme (BRP) for Women Entrepreneurs for 2023.

This initiative, which is funded by the “SSA Women Entrepreneurship Programme” of Google.org, is a component of a continent-wide initiative taking place in South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria with the goal of enhancing the digital and financial capability of female nano and microbusiness entrepreneurs between the ages of 18 and 55.
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Target Forward Founders Accelerator Program For Startups ($5,000 Stipend)

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Target Forward Founders

An accelerator program called Target Forward Founders is available to early-stage consumer packaged goods (CPG) startups who are curious about the retail industry. Its goal is to help creators with historically limited resources become the next wave of companies that create wealth.

2023 Categories:

Baby and Toddler, Beauty, Food and Beverage, Health and Personal Care, Household Essentials, Pets, Toys and Entertainment (more…)

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BRAVE Women Nigeria Grant Application for Female Entrepreneurs, Lead Firms and Business Associations (receive between $5000 – $50,000)

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BRAVE Women

Women-owned/led small and medium enterprises (WSMEs), lead firms, and business associations operating in the agriculture, education, energy, fashion and textile, and health sectors are invited to apply for the grant program being offered by BRAVE Women Nigeria in collaboration with Wema Bank in “Lagos and Abuja only.”

Female entrepreneurs can apply for grants ranging from $5,000 to $15,000 through the BRAVE Women programme, while women associations can apply for matching grants totaling up to $50,000 (or the equivalent in naira) to fund assets.

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Flourish Africa Grant Application for Female Entrepreneurs (Winners receive up to N2M funding each).

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Flourish Africa Grant

The Flourish Africa Grant for Female Entrepreneurs is a One Billion Naira Fund created to support and promote African female-owned businesses over 5 years through training, mentoring, and funding.

By funding and structured training over five years, the program aims to empower the entrepreneurial activities of at least 2,500 female business owners. The initiative would teach at least 500 female entrepreneurs annually in business and life skills, and the top 100 of these individuals would then be qualified to receive grants of up to 2 million naira each from a 200 million naira annual fund.
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Grow Further Grant Application for Agricultural Researchers

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growth further

Grow Further, a nonprofit with a Seattle, Washington, headquarters and a national/international remote team, awards funding to agricultural innovations that are important to smallholder farmers and other populations at risk of food poverty. We are a privately funded public charity that was established by an economist and is supported by a varied group of individual contributors located all over the world.
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QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS FOR 2023 TONY ELUMELU FOUNDATION ENTREPRENUERSHIP PROGRAMME APPLICATION

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Questions and correct answers

QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS FOR TONY ELUMELU FOUNDATION ENTREPRENUERSHIP PROGRAMME 2023 APPLICATION

In this post contains this year Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme Application questions and correct Answers. Therefore go through this guide carefully. Before you apply, make sure you have your valid Identity Card and its number ready.

You will be required to fill in your personal and business details. After filling this details you are required to carried out a compulsory TEF assessment, which qualifies you to the next phase of the program. (more…)

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Call for Application: Liveable Young Entrepreneurship and Leadership Program (YELP) for Nigerians, Kenyans and Ugandans

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  • Enjoy a competitive salary and performance bonuses annually

 

The Young Entrepreneurship and Leadership Programme has announced the launch of the YELP programme with support from Liveable.

 

Request for Applications

The YELP program aims to enroll the most gifted and aspirational young people in Nigeria, Nairobi, and Kampala in a course of study that will help them develop their leadership and entrepreneurial skills while tackling a challenge that has previously looked nearly insurmountable.

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Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme 2023 ($5000 Seed Capital) Application

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Questions and correct answers

The Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme 2023 has commenced on the 1st of January 2023.

The Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme is a $100million commitment made by the Elumelu family to empower 10,000 African entrepreneurs over a 10-year period through, training, mentorship, and funding. The objective is to generate over $10 billion in revenue for the African economy and at least 1 million new jobs.

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