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Circularity tales: Environmental entrepreneurship in Dakar

Impact Hub

Despite this surge in initiatives, the available technical support and idea incubation opportunities remain limited. In response, she initiated a project focused on creating ecological toilets using soil bricks and methanised pits to generate biogas from human waste.

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Circularity Tales: environmental entrepreneurship in Dakar

Impact Hub

However, the technical support and idea incubation available remain small. . Named “Wërngël-Bi”, a term in Wolof that translates to “The Circle”, the circularity programme at Impact Hub Dakar supported different entrepreneurs carrying out projects that ranged from eco-construction to ecological toilets.

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10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community

This is going to be BIG.

It's a lot more lucrative to convert a warehouse into a condo building--especially if it's anywhere near the city--but it's those areas where innovators are creating economic opportunity as well, and where they need commercial space to thrive. 33 Flatbush.

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Spain’s ten-year plan to put startups in the economic driving seat

TechCrunch

He highlights a couple of priority projects: One to create a network to link entrepreneurs and policymakers with the wider ecosystem, and another to connect incubators and accelerators to build out a national support network for founders — both of which have been inspired by approaches taken in other European countries.

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