It is the value, not the number of business hubs that countsIn Africa there are more than 643 entities specialising in providing early startup business support in one form or another. These entities go by a variety of names, including innovation labs, technology labs, co-working spaces, business incubators, hives or simply hubs. I conducted a detailed study on Kenyan university-based business incubators in 2017, detailed findings of which I will share another day. They then stop being business incubators and become realtors and colleges. Let us not be excited by the high number of hubs but rather be more interested in the value of their output.

Source: Standard Digital May 02, 2020 12:45 UTC