{"id":2164,"date":"2021-09-28T13:27:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T13:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-many-innovative-projects-fail-to-take-off"},"modified":"2021-09-28T13:53:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T13:53:17","slug":"why-many-innovative-projects-fail-to-take-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-many-innovative-projects-fail-to-take-off","title":{"rendered":"Why many innovative projects fail to take off"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press<\/a> – Rwanda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Over the years, there have been many innovative projects by different young creative innovators, but some of these ideas never come to fruition while others continue to struggle due to different challenges they face.<\/p>\n

Gad Nishimwe, is one of many youths whose ideas are yet to come fruition. While pursuing his civil engineering degree at INES Ruhengeri, Nishimwe developed an environmental friendly robot dubbed \u201cG-Robot\u201d that uses hydraulic pressure for lifting heavy loads, excavating and leveling land.<\/p>\n

This innovation was billed as critical in the areas of construction, mining, manufacturing, transport and logistics, emergencies among others. However, four years down the road, he told The New Times that he is still struggling to get support and no feedback or follow up from any institution and despite a successful prototype, it has largely remained a concept.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need support for our innovation project to take off. No tangible actions have been done in terms of following up on the innovators who invented or innovated new things,\u201d he said, adding that he had knocked on many doors with no support.<\/p>\n

He said even though he has won both local and international innovation competitions he is still struggling to get support to materialize the project and has just remained a concept.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need people to trust and invest in our innovation. For example, if I innovate a robot and I keep winning competitions. That means my innovation is relevant to the market. However, I find it strange that I have still failed to get an investor,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He called for more trainings, workshops and incubation centres to improve the innovations in order to satisfy the market need and customers in way to be successful. He added that there is also a need for legal support to protect young people\u2019s innovations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is because when we innovate, there are other people out there waiting to copy our ideas because they have the financial muscle to actualize them. We then end up with nothing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said government and other partners\u2019 support is needed to promote such innovations and provide and find the market for them. \u201cWe can innovate and make a useful product to the market but due to lack of promotions and market we cannot be successful,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n

Rwandan biomedical engineers, from Integrated Polytechnic Regional Centre (IPRC) Kigali, were also set to release the first locally produced ventilators at affordable prices on the market to respond to Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

But due to some challenges the ventilators are still not out on the market. According to Diog\u00e8ne Mulindahabi, the Principal of IPRC Kigali, the ventilators are still at prototype phase and waiting to be approved by Rwanda Food and Drugs Authority (FDA).<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause these ventilators are going to be used in hospitals, we are waiting for them to be approved by the FDA, their standards are very high, and so we need to meet them before we put them on the market.\u201d Mulindahabi added that financial constraints are also a main challenge for the project.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis also applies to other projects by many of our students, they are given prize money when they win certain competitions, but that is not enough to turn their prototypes into profitable businesses,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Noel Nizeyimana is the Chief Executive of Greencare Rwanda Ltd, a company that uses wastes \u2013 especially plastics \u2013 and sand to make bricks and pavers and turns degradable waste into fertilizers. Nizeyimana said that the biggest challenge they meet is lack of synergies amongst stakeholders.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do not have support right from policy makers yet there is still a huge problem of solid waste management. We are not given platform to showcase our projects that are here to provide solutions and help our communities while creating job opportunities for us and others,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Nizeyimana added that although they always receive awards for their creative projects, they end up fending for themselves, and no further help in terms of product improvement or market provision.<\/p>\n

Yeetah Kamikazi, the Director General of kLab, a technology hub in Kigali said that apart from financial constraints, young innovators lack digital skills, which is why most of their projects fail.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are planning a programme, where we will be able to put together entrepreneurs and innovators and nurture them from ideation stage to making prototypes, this way we will be able to track them and know who succeeded and who did not and help them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Kamikazi added that the start-up programme will provide training, and give these young innovators digital skills and right mentorship which will help them grow and be able to turn their projects into tangible businesses.<\/p>\n

ICT and Innovation ministry speaks out<\/b><\/p>\n

Esther Nkunda, the Director General in charge of Innovation and Emerging Technologies at the Ministry of ICT and Innovation told The New Times that efforts are being mobilized to support young innovators.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have realized that young innovators and startups have been struggling because they have no sufficient support. They need support and funding. Therefore we are planning many activities to support them. We are going to open innovation hubs in other provinces and secondary cities which will help to scale up the support,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She said that the ministry is also starting to mobilize startup funding aimed to improve young innovators\u2019 projects. \u201cWe have to ensure we set up startup funding opportunities and we need different partners in this. Many are organizations competitions that can fund the innovators,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She said they are also trying to operationalize Rwanda Innovation Fund so that young innovators\u2019 projects are supported. \u201cWe are also looking at interventions in terms of laws and policies. We are working on a tech-enabled innovation policy and startup Act which have different interventions,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The legislative process to establish a national startup act has reached the advanced stage with the Ministry of ICT and Innovation assuring that the procedure \u2018must\u2019 be finalized this year.<\/p>\n

Startup Acts are an emerging legislative instrument to package strategic incentives and interventions to accelerate the formation and sustained scale of innovative and high-growth firms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Rwanda. Over the years, there have been many innovative projects by different young creative innovators, but some of these ideas never come to fruition while others continue to struggle due to different challenges they face. Gad Nishimwe, is one of many youths whose ideas are yet to come fruition. While pursuing his civil […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":2163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30,761,28],"tags":[760,763,1612,1575,758],"class_list":["post-2164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-files","category-homepage-english","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-rwanda","tag-innovative","tag-projects","tag-rwanda"],"yoast_head":"\nWhy many innovative projects fail to take off - Rwanda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Over the years, there have been many innovative projects by different young creative innovators, but some of these ideas ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-many-innovative-projects-fail-to-take-off\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why many innovative projects fail to take off\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Over the years, there have been many innovative projects by different young creative innovators, but some of these ideas ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-many-innovative-projects-fail-to-take-off\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rwanda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-09-28T13:27:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-09-28T13:53:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2021\/09\/img-61531e314b24c.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"847\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"491\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-many-innovative-projects-fail-to-take-off#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-many-innovative-projects-fail-to-take-off\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Why many innovative projects fail to take off\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-09-28T13:27:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-09-28T13:53:17+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-many-innovative-projects-fail-to-take-off\"},\"wordCount\":1027,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-many-innovative-projects-fail-to-take-off#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2021\/09\/img-61531e314b24c.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Rwanda\",\"innovative\",\"Projects\",\"Rwanda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\",\"files\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-many-innovative-projects-fail-to-take-off#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-many-innovative-projects-fail-to-take-off\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-many-innovative-projects-fail-to-take-off\",\"name\":\"Why many innovative projects fail to take off - Rwanda\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-many-innovative-projects-fail-to-take-off#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-many-innovative-projects-fail-to-take-off#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2021\/09\/img-61531e314b24c.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-09-28T13:27:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-09-28T13:53:17+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Over the years, there have been many innovative projects by different young creative innovators, but some of these ideas ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-many-innovative-projects-fail-to-take-off#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-many-innovative-projects-fail-to-take-off\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-many-innovative-projects-fail-to-take-off#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2021\/09\/img-61531e314b24c.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2021\/09\/img-61531e314b24c.jpg\",\"width\":847,\"height\":491,\"caption\":\"Why many innovative projects fail to take off\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-many-innovative-projects-fail-to-take-off#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Why many innovative projects fail to take off\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/\",\"name\":\"Rwanda\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Why many innovative projects fail to take off - Rwanda","description":"Over the years, there have been many innovative projects by different young creative innovators, but some of these ideas ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-many-innovative-projects-fail-to-take-off","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Why many innovative projects fail to take off","og_description":"Over the years, there have been many innovative projects by different young creative innovators, but some of these ideas ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-many-innovative-projects-fail-to-take-off","og_site_name":"Rwanda","article_published_time":"2021-09-28T13:27:15+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-09-28T13:53:17+00:00","og_image":[{"width":847,"height":491,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2021\/09\/img-61531e314b24c.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"5 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-many-innovative-projects-fail-to-take-off#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-many-innovative-projects-fail-to-take-off"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Why many innovative projects fail to take off","datePublished":"2021-09-28T13:27:15+00:00","dateModified":"2021-09-28T13:53:17+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-many-innovative-projects-fail-to-take-off"},"wordCount":1027,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-many-innovative-projects-fail-to-take-off#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2021\/09\/img-61531e314b24c.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Rwanda","innovative","Projects","Rwanda"],"articleSection":["all news","Community","files","homepage-english"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-many-innovative-projects-fail-to-take-off#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-many-innovative-projects-fail-to-take-off","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-many-innovative-projects-fail-to-take-off","name":"Why many innovative projects fail to take off - Rwanda","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-many-innovative-projects-fail-to-take-off#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-many-innovative-projects-fail-to-take-off#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2021\/09\/img-61531e314b24c.jpg","datePublished":"2021-09-28T13:27:15+00:00","dateModified":"2021-09-28T13:53:17+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Over the years, there have been many innovative projects by different young creative innovators, but some of these ideas ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-many-innovative-projects-fail-to-take-off#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-many-innovative-projects-fail-to-take-off"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-many-innovative-projects-fail-to-take-off#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2021\/09\/img-61531e314b24c.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2021\/09\/img-61531e314b24c.jpg","width":847,"height":491,"caption":"Why many innovative projects fail to take off"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/why-many-innovative-projects-fail-to-take-off#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Why many innovative projects fail to take off"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/","name":"Rwanda","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}