The Ministry of Higher Education, Sciences and Information Technology (MESCTI) recently launched, in Luanda, the Strategic Plan for the Implementation of University incubators in the country, an initiative that aims to prioritize the areas of agriculture, fisheries, health, education and management of financial resources, as well as improving the prestige and positioning of Angolan universities in research and scientific production.
According to the Secretary of State for Science, Technology and Innovation, Domingos da Silva Neto, speaking to journalists, said that this commitment by MESCTI could develop the national economy through support for entrepreneurship and the creation of jobs support creation and development of micro and small companies, among other benefits, and where work is currently being carried out to gather information and create conditions for the implementation of incubators and startups in the country's universities.
In the same vein, the head of the UNDP, José Félix, said that the organization supported the acquisition of equipment to restructure the incubators, lacking other funding provided for in the action plan.
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To inform that MESCTI and UNDP recently signed a memorandum of understanding in 2021, which aims to create strategies that contribute to the strengthening, promotion and formation of an ecosystem of entrepreneurship and innovation in Higher Education Institutes
The memorandum aims, among other objectives, to prepare participatory diagnostic studies on the innovation and entrepreneurship sector in Angola, technical assistance for the creation of a University incubator, creation of a technology and innovation transfer network, support for the development of policies for regulation of the entrepreneurship innovation ecosystem.
Among the objectives, there is also the strengthening of professional skills and competences through training opportunities and unpaid internships.
