Kumasi Hive

Credit : Screenshot from kumasihive.com – 11/04/2022

Country Ghana
City Kumasi
Name Kumasi Hive
Date
Description of the project Kumasi Hive is an Innovation and Entrepreneurship hub based in Kumasi (Ghana) which promotes “sustainable industrialization” by supporting local innovations and business/startups and therefore creating local manufacturing businesses for the advantage of the community.

The hub provides for co-working space, event space, training space, hardware studio as service and makerspace. It is meant to be scalable anywhere in the world and the structure already started to collaborate with organisations based in Kenya, Myanmar, and Nepal (Global Innovation Exhange, May 22. 2018) and in Senegal.

Concerning the organisation itself, two programs are active within the Hive.

  • The Hive hardware incubator which incubates selected hardware startups, helping them move from idea stage through prototyping to product -for- market stage with both technical and business development support.
  • And, the Hive Business accelerator program focuses on non-hardware startups program and is activate for the early stage startups.

Kumasi Hive is also connected to more common people, also working towards making resources available for the student community. In particular, Creativity Group is an undergraduate student community of engineers, makers, innovators, entrepreneurs and social thought leaders, eager to use innovation and technology as a tool to address critical challenges through social intervention and development of their communities. Eventually, Kumasi Hive believes in women empowerment; it indeed supported over 5000 women to start their business.

Urban Co-Governance Weak
Enabling State Moderate
Pooling Weak
Experimentalism Strong
Tech Justice Weak
Project Website https://kumasihive.com
References, sources, contact person(s) Website : Kumasi Hive | Home

Contact : info@kumasihive.com

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August 15, 2019