Government agencies like the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) and The Innovation Hub (TIH) are doing good work fostering innovation in our entrepreneurs, especially young people.
For the past two days I was part of a TIA facilitation and mentorship workshop to some amazing young graduates in Durban. They had various backgrounds in IT, chemistry, electrical engineering, etc. and developed some interesting and implementable ideas.
TIA is to be commended. Unfortunately, there's not enough of it. And it should be offered at universities before they graduate.
Indeed, why not introduce this at high school level? If we are to produce a nation of winners we need to re-engineer our education to inculcate innovation and risk taking at an early age. Even if they go on to become employees they will bring their entrepreneurial and innovation skills to their organisations and help create great companies.
We constantly lament about our country going down. Well, this is one practical way to prevent this. Enough talk and more doing.
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