KTU-KIC Incubation Hub
Empowering innovation, entrepreneurship and enterprise development
A platform of Koforidua Technical University and the Kosmos Innovation Center, where students, graduates, researchers and aspiring entrepreneurs turn ideas into businesses that work.
Welcome to the Hub
Where ideas become enterprises
The KTU-KIC Incubation Hub is an innovation and entrepreneurship platform established through a collaboration between Koforidua Technical University and the Kosmos Innovation Center. The Hub is a working environment where students, graduates, researchers and aspiring entrepreneurs turn innovative ideas into viable businesses and solutions that make a difference.
It carries forward the University's mandate for applied research, technology transfer, innovation and skills development, and it does so by backing the enterprises that come out of that work — so research reaches the market and young people find a way into it.
More about the HubOur Mission
To nurture innovative ideas, develop entrepreneurial talent and accelerate the creation of sustainable enterprises through mentorship, capacity building, industry collaboration and access to innovation resources.
Our Vision
To become a leading university-based innovation and incubation hub in Ghana, recognised for developing innovative entrepreneurs, supporting start-ups and driving socioeconomic transformation.
What we do
From a first idea to a trading business
Incubation and enterprise development
Business incubation from first idea to trading enterprise, with coaching and mentorship for start-ups at every stage of that journey.
Innovation challenges and training
Innovation challenges, hackathons and entrepreneurship training programmes that find ideas worth backing and give the people behind them the skills to build on.
Research commercialisation
Support for taking research findings to market, including product development and prototyping, so work done in the University does not stop at publication.
Industry and investor linkages
Introductions to the industry partners and investors a young enterprise needs, and the preparation to make those conversations count.
AgriTech innovation
Dedicated support for agricultural technology ventures and the enterprises growing around them, a focus the Hub shares with the Kosmos Innovation Center.
Youth skills and employability
Skills development that raises employability, for young people building a business and for those who will take what they learn into work elsewhere.
The Hub
A home for innovation on campus
The Hub has its own space at Koforidua Technical University — a place to work, to be coached, to build a prototype and to pitch it. Founders work alongside each other rather than alone, which is most of what an incubator is for.
It was commissioned in partnership with the Kosmos Innovation Center and operates under the Directorate of Research and Innovation.
Key focus areas
The sectors we work in
Who can apply
The Hub is open to more than students
KTU students
Currently enrolled students at any level, with an idea they want to take further.
Recent graduates
Graduates building a venture rather than looking for a job, or alongside one.
Academic innovators and researchers
Staff and researchers with findings, a prototype or a process that could reach the market.
Early-stage startups
Enterprises already trading in a small way and looking for structure, mentorship and reach.
Youth entrepreneurs
Young people in and around Koforidua with a business idea and the will to build it.
Community innovators
Innovators solving a problem in their own community, whether or not they are at KTU.
Have an idea worth building?
The Hub is open to KTU students, graduates, researchers and young entrepreneurs from the wider community. Tell us what you are working on.