The Stanford Graduate School of Business has announced a USD $3 million‚ three-year partnership with De Beers Group to empower young‚ budding entrepreneurs and owners of established businesses in Botswana‚ Namibia‚ and South Africa through two educational programmes launching in 2018.
Stanford said it is expanding two of its programmes to Southern Africa: the Seed Transformation Programme of the Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies‚ known as Stanford Seed‚ and the Stanford Go-to-Market programme for accelerating business ventures to market.
Stanford Seed is a one-year programme of sessions on topics including leadership‚ strategy‚ business ethics‚ accounting‚ marketing‚ and value chain innovations‚ the institution said in a statement.
“Seed facilitators also work with participants in carefully constructed leadership peer groups‚ offering networking opportunities‚ resources‚ and ideas to help implement the participants’ transformation plans.” Applications are open to existing businesses and will be accepted 17 August through 6 October‚ 2017.
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The Go-to-Market programme is a one week entrepreneurship bootcamp‚ taught by Stanford GSB faculty. “Through a combination of lectures‚ case studies‚ and small-group discussions‚ the programme helps budding entrepreneurs gain the confidence and skills to commercialize their business ideas and accelerate their route to market‚” the institution said.
Botswana will host the first programme in Africa‚ but it states the bootcamp may expand to include participants from other Southern African countries once fully established. Chosen participants will convene in March 2018.
Both programmes will be headquartered at the Botswana Innovation Hub‚ a science and technology park in Gaborone‚ Botswana. The initiative will be supported by a range of government entities in Botswana‚ including the Botswana Innovation Hub‚ the Botswana Ministry of Tertiary Education‚ and the Ministry of Youth Empowerment‚ Sport and Culture Development.
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