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THE establishment of innovation hubs at State universities has kick-started Zimbabwe’s industrial modernisation agenda through the pursuit of the Education 5.0 policy, which has so far seen the Government registering over 500 patents in various fields.
Government’s decision to involve institutions of higher learning in the revival of the economy through the provision of technical and research-based solutions in innovation hubs is paying dividends.
Chinhoyi University of Technology is one of the universities that has established Innovation Hubs.
The CUT Hub endeavours to be a catalyst for the economic and social advancement of the Zimbabwean society by stimulating economic growth, modernisation, and resultant prosperity through the exploitation of research outputs and innovative ideas that are generated at the University.
It is the vehicle for technology assimilation, adaptation, customisation and diffusion in Zimbabwean society; primarily for the benefit of Industry, Commerce and the Communities.
THE CUT Innovation and Business Incubation Hub is a centre for innovation and entrepreneurship that is supporting business ideas, creating investment opportunities, and has managed to successfully create and register various companies.
It is also a vehicle that drives industrialisation in commercial entities, and has a mission to support innovators and entrepreneurs in transforming their ideas into technologically feasible solutions that spur the economic growth of the country.
The innovation hub has registered successful companies such as the Block Leak project, which comprises CUT Kleene, which makes detergents, sanitisers and dish washers, the dairy milk parlour, the fish farming project, Black soldier flyer project that deals with stock feed, CUT Printing Press, CUT CLO, a company in textile and manufacturing, and an artificial insemination project, which is for animal genetics and insemination.
Bongani Ndlovu
Online Reporter