The University of Mines and Technology has launched its Business Incubation Hub (U-Hub). The event took place on 25th March 2021 together with the launch of the Hub’s maiden project, the GrEEn Business Incubation Project. UHub is one of the University’s strategies at advancing its research and extension services. The Hub seeks to develop, nurture and grow innovations and business ideas at UMaT and its immediate environs by facilitating the transformation of staff and students innovations into businesses and linking the products and services with industry for uptake. The aim of the Hub is to contribute to the production of entrepreneurial graduates to create jobs and to bridge the unemployment gap in the country.
The Hub also organises tailor made entrepreneurship and other capacity building programmes for:
- micro, small and medium enterprises
- organisations
- and institutions