Monthly Archives: August 2012

In this interview with Professor Helmut Krcmar from Technical University, Munich, produced by SAP’s Developer Experience team, Professor Krcmar briefly discusses impressions of Open Innovation at SAP and how SAP conducts innovation management. He relates these impressions to the required abilities to incorporate and utilize ideas and other assets (absorptive capacity)...

You can also click on the infographic to view the high resolution version. Authors: Hilda Moraa, iHub Research (hilda@ihub.co.ke) Kelvin Murage, iHub Research (kelvin@ihub.co.ke) Kenya is heading to becoming Africa’s ICT Hub: There is no doubt that Kenya is on the journey of becoming an ICT Hub in Africa. The rapid growth of innovation spaces in Kenya gives us confidence...

Everyone’s talking about Kenya’s technology start-up scene. Just a few days ago, the Economist, who achieved notoriety for their Hopeless Continent issue, ran a great piece about how Kenya’s tech scene is about to take off. ...

The Rockefeller Foundation through its Impact Investing initiative is funding research in five sub-Saharan African countries which will contribute to two overarching goals: understanding the policy barriers and enabling environment for impact investing across Africa and recommending national policies to encourage the growth of the industry for the ultimate benefit of...

From Business Model Alchemist I’m a big fan of the Lean Startup movement and love the underlying principle of testing, learning, and pivoting by experimenting with the most basic product prototypes imaginable – so-called Minimal Viable Products (MVP) – during the search for product-market fit. ...

“Biotechnology has the promise of leading to increased food security and sustainable forestry practices, as well as improving health in developing countries by enhancing food nutrition. In agriculture, biotechnology has enabled the genetic alteration of crops, improved soil productivity, and enhanced natural weed and pest control. Unfortunately, such potential has...