Innovation and the Accelerator Lab

Innovation and the Accelerator Lab

The SDG Accelerator Lab has the vision to position Kenya as a global sustainable innovation hub, with the mission to leapfrog Kenya’s economy by harnessing technology and innovation to address the Big 4 Agenda and youth unemployment. The Lab has been launched during UNGA 2020, followed up by a mission to twin Silicon Savannah with Silicon Valley and has the main objectives:

• Provide a vehicle for partnerships, investments, and business linkages to accelerate local innovations and ideas, including twinning Silicon Valley to Silicon Savannah.
• Apply research and drives growth of the entrepreneurship ecosystem to address the youth unemployment challenge in Kenya.
• Support de-risking of investments in innovations.
• Match demand and supply side of the innovation ecosystem.