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Agri-business incubation helps local communities to protect crops and create jobs

American incubation experts say successful agri-business incubators can protect crops, create jobs and grow incomes in the developing world

23 July 2010 | On 29 April, 2010, infoDev and the Agriculture and Rural Development department of The World Bank held a ‘brown bag lunch’ on business incubation in the US and what lessons might be learnt for other parts of the world. The focus was on agri-business incubators. More

Brazil and infoDev join forces to tackle e-waste

19 July 2010 | As part of our ongoing collaboration with the Ministry of Science and Technology (MCT) of Brazil, infoDev will develop with stakeholders a recommendation for a strategy and policy for safely and productively dealing with e-waste in Brazil. More

New Report Shows How to Scale Mobile Applications

6 July 2010 | With mobile phone penetration continuing to expand in Africa and technology becoming both more powerful and less expensive, new trends in mobile applications are emerging. A new report by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) on mobile applications in East Africa examines the services offered - from finance to health and education - the barriers to delivery, and approaches to successfully scaling-up applications beyond the pilot stage. More

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Featured Publications

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Brochure

iDisc - Virtual Business Incubation Platform for networking and know-how

Mixed-Use Incubator Handbook

An infoDev Handbook that aims to provide a useful tool for anyone considering setting up an incubator More

Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners?

A Model for Sustainable and Replicable ICT Incubators in Sub-Saharan Africa

An infoDev report that analyzes the best international practices of ICT incubators, including 5 Case Studies More

Financing Technology Entrepreneurs & SMEs in Developing Countries

An infoDev Study on the funding challenges and opportunities facing Technology SMEs in developing countries More

Terms of Reference - Facilitator Innovation Entrepreneurship Global Communities of Practice

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What infoDev means to me

Voices of the infoDev community from around the globe. More

Annual Report 2009

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Summary of 2010 infoDev Annual Symposium

Detailed summary More

The Global Opportunity in IT-Based Services

Assessing and Enhancing Country Competitiveness More

When Markets do not work, should grants be used?

This document examines the theory of grants, draws lessons from a review of their use in twelve projects, discusses findings and recommends ways to deal with problems faced in grant projects More

Getting Better Technologies to the Poor: A Landscape of Commercialization Challenges & Opportunities (From the PIPRA Foundation)

Strategic IPR Management in Technologies for the Poor (From the PIPRA Foundation)

Impact of Business Incubation in the United States: Lessons for Developing Countries

David Monkman, President & CEO National Business Incubation Association More

Impact of Business Incubation in the United States: Case History Assessment and Applications for Developing Countries

Lou Cooperhouse, Director, Rutgers Food Innovation Center More

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Promoting ICT-enabled entrepreneurship in developing countries - infoDev's global business incubator network consists of nearly 300 incubators in over 80 developing countries assisting 20,000 enterprises which have created more than 220,000 jobs. More information about the network - including a Directory with over 140 profiles, an Incubator Toolkit, Success Stories and ICT Tools - can be found at www.idisc.net.