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Feedback form: African Scalecraft
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Which of these options most describes your role in the scaling ecosystem?
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Founder
Scale up leadership team
Commercial investor (e.g. VC)
Philanthropic or grant funder (e.g. World Bank, Innovate UK)
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On a scale of 1-5, how useful is the web report as a scaling resource?
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Which section did you find most useful?
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Art & Science of Scaling
African Contextual Factors
Enabling Ecosystem
Scaling ventures
People
Investors and capital
Way forward
Please choose up to 5 of the 20 recommendations that you think are the highest priority ones
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1. Ensure that scale-ups are duly represented in pan-African and national research, innovation and industrial strategies.
2. Develop a robust engagement platform for dynamic private sector engagement in pan-African and national socio-economic frameworks.
3. Develop a holistic pan-African open innovation strategy that includes both commercial and public value lenses.
4. Design international ‘soft-landing’ exchange programmes for African scaling ventures in key developed and emerging market cities to facilitate sourcing of commercial opportunities.
5. Conduct a feasibility assessment for a pan-African innovation leadership academy to improve public strategic innovation capacity.
6. Lead a bottom-up initiative to design a collective ecosystem strategic plan for scaling ventures.
7. Develop a pan-African mentorship strategy for scaling ventures.
8. Develop a MVP for an affordable online scale-up academy where transitioning startups can access scaling-related knowledge, training and mentorship.
9. Develop a broad portfolio of scale-up case studies for broad dissemination amongst scaling ecosystem stakeholders.
10. Conduct a feasibility assessment of African-appropriate tools, approaches and strategies that improve stakeholder coordination and data collaboration as regards scaling African ventures.
11. Conduct a series of needs assessments to better understand the scale-up demand and supply gaps as regards data and knowledge.
12. Design and develop the framework for an “Evidence Public Dialogue Series” for commercial scaling ventures.
13. Lead a participatory, bottom-up initiative to establish a pan-African ScaleUp Institute, or similar publicly-funded but privately-managed scale-up coalition or representative body.
14. Assess the feasibility of a disruptive and novel syndication network model for ecosystem collaboration
15. Research and conduct an analysis of corporate responsibility commitments and trends of African scale-ups.
16. Develop a programme of support to promote and normalise mental health as a strategic business priority.
17. Working with ecosystem partners, develop a pan-African talent strategy and roadmap.
18. With buy-in from the top 10-20 African VC investors, create a subscription-based scale-up matching platform MVP.
19. Design a platform on which investors can access and interrogate reliable scale-up ecosystem data and information to reduce information asymmetries.
20. Design an innovation approach to reduce the gender financing gap across the African context.
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