The Legatum Center at MIT proudly announces its largest Foundry Fellowship cohort yet, featuring 15 entrepreneurs from Africa's rapidly growing economies, committed to innovation-led entrepreneurship.

Africans are waking up to their intrinsic creative prowess. The talent in the film, music, arts, crafts, fashion, design, and multimedia industries that are now available on the continent present infinite opportunities for creative jobs for Africans.

It appears today that facts are not based on absolutes but rather on the sheer number of social media shares and retweets. Charles P. Pierce argues that validity is determined by the decibel of the speaker not the content of the lyrics.

Complementing the experiential data, rescue.co relies on information coming from their partners. Real data is essential in understudied markets where theoretical assumptions may lead a company astray.

The best entrepreneurs don’t waste a crisis. They see opportunity to solve new or adjacent problems and go after it. Their ingenuity to survive near-term difficulties can create long-term advantage.

A conversation covering the systemic issues facing entrepreneurs from marginalized communities and discussed the changes that are needed in our cultural, economic, and educational systems to catalyze their growth.

Market-creating innovations transform complicated and expensive products into products that are simple and affordable, making them accessible to a whole new segment of people for whom there was always underlying demand, but no adequate solution on the market. This segment of the population is referr...

Read how Fellows are addressing pressing questions of infrastructure, food, livelihoods, and quality of life in Africa, Latin America, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.