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Circularity tales: Environmental entrepreneurship in Dakar

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Circularity tales: Environmental entrepreneurship in Dakar In Senegal, the surge in environmental entrepreneurship among the youth is evident through projects addressing sanitation, pollution, and plastic waste. Despite this surge in initiatives, the available technical support and idea incubation opportunities remain limited.

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Circularity Tales: environmental entrepreneurship in Dakar

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Environmental entrepreneurship is an appealing concept to the Senegalese youths. However, the technical support and idea incubation available remain small. . The post Circularity Tales: environmental entrepreneurship in Dakar appeared first on Impact Hub. Meet the Wërngël-Bi entrepreneurs.

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

It took me all of 45 minutes to setup the program—I wrote up a syllabus for 5 sessions, solicited feedback from a dozen or so product managers I knew (most of whom volunteered to speak), and called up Micah at the NYU/Poly Incubator to get the space. No revenues, no costs. Bo from RoseTech even volunteered to videotape the sessions.

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

TechCrunch

The national strategy envisages entrepreneurship/startup innovation as the driving force at the top of a pyramid that sits atop existing sectors of the Spanish economy — “spearheading the innovative system that we want to generate”, as Polo puts it. “We are not only focusing on innovative entrepreneurship.

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10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community

This is going to be BIG.

That's why I thought it fitting to feature some of the key buildings where people are innovating in Brooklyn, or where they soon will be, and helping ensure Brooklyn's future as the preeminent destination for creative entrepreneurship. 33 Flatbush. Picture: Benjamin Norman for The New York Times.