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MIT GCFP Pop-Up Panel on May 13, 2025
MIT GCFP Pop-Up Panel on May 13, 2025
In October 2024, the Legatum Center for Development Entrepreneurship at MIT conducted a two-day workshop titled "Hedging Currency Risk: Innovative Lending Strategies for SMEs in Africa." The workshop brought together a diverse group of entrepreneurs, investors, economists, and thought leaders to tac...
This blog by Dr. Nadia Shalaby explores the critical link between fertilizer production and food self-sufficiency in global growth markets. Tracing the history of the Haber-Bosch process and its outsized impact on modern agriculture, Dr. Shalaby examines why Africa—despite rapid population growth—re...
This paper employs the MIT framework for innovation-driven entrepreneurship to assess the development of Deep Tech and innovation ecosystems in Central Asia, focusing on Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan.
Why are so many founders in Central Asia building companies with one foot out the door? In this provocative piece by Shamil Ibragimov, Beyond the Hype: Rethinking Innovation Ecosystems in Central Asia, Ibragimov challenges the dominant startup narrative in emerging markets. Rather than fueling br...
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has seen rapid socioeconomic growth due to oil and gas revenues, but diversification has been at the top of economic growth agendas for over a decade now. GCC countries are increasingly encouraging entrepreneurship and innovation as a pathway to achieving diversity...
This technical brief is a supplement to the white paper, The Women-Waste-Climate Nexus: Unlocking the potential of women entrepreneurs to combat the global waste crisis and Accelerate the Race to Net Zero (Khaled, 2023). Using the paper as a point of departure, it provides a brief analysis of the wo...
Twelve Legatum Fellows from seven countries explored Egypt’s entrepreneurial environment, connecting markets and strengthening ties across Africa.
Thirteen entrepreneurs from eight countries gathered in Ghana to tour the innovation and entrepreneurship community of Accra.
An entrepreneur identifies a clear gap in a market: traditional manufacturing businesses and factories were often not directly connected and were forced to go through many intermediaries across the supply chain – creating complexity, inefficiency, and impacting the bottom line.