About Us

Data Driven Innovation (DDI) Incubation Centre hosted at NM-AIST through the African Centre for Research, Agricultural Advancement, Teaching Excellence and Sustainability (CREATES).

The centre is one of the four regional incubators started and supported by the Inter Universities Council for East Africa (IUCEA) with grants from the World Bank. It focuses on 4 main thematic areas: (i) Agriculture, (ii) Food and Nutrition Security, (iii) Biodiversity and the Environment, and (iv) Health with ICT. Entrepreneurship is the backbone drivers of all 4 thematic areas.

The centre is aimed at testing products in real life environments as it is working with commercially viable entities to launch companies and products into the national, regional and international market.

It also intends to offer young innovators/inventors and entrepreneurs a wide range of business development services including business idea analysis and diagnostics, mentorship, product/prototypes development and registration services, work station provisions, specialised trainings, market access, pitching and networking activities, among others.

Vision

To become the regional state-of-the-art innovation incubation centre that turns ideas and innovations into viable business ventures for economic transformation in Africa.

Mission

To nurture and empower the next generation innovations and inventions to address pressing socio-economic challenges in the region.  

Slogan

“Technology and Innovation Towards taking the region to Industrialization and High-Income Country”