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Women in STEAM From PhD to tech product Since its launch in 2018, Digital Africa has been running a number of programs for women. One of them, WinSTEAM, is an incubator dedicated to women in STEAM.
Since its launch in 2018, Digital Africa has been running a number of programs for women. One of them, WinSTEAM, is an incubator dedicated to women in STEAM.
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The objective of science incubators is to support the development of early-stage technologies and science-based businesses. With dedicated teams and support, these incubators allow researchers and scientific teams to exploit the outcome of their research from a business standpoint, thereby fostering the emergence of innovative solutions carried by scientific expertise. STEAM-based incubators are massively underrepresented in Africa’s growing incubation scene, and women-focused incubations are still scarce at an international level. This is why Digital Africa, alongside key partners in Rwanda, will develop the WinSTEAM project to enable women researchers in STEAM to turn the
innovation they propose into viable, scalable and sustainable businesses.
To turn top notch research output into business The aim of WinSTEAM - or Women in STEAM- is to support women researchers in STEAM to turn their research into viable, scalable and sustainable businesses via specific incubation. Digital Africa wants to create a womenspecific incubator dedicated to scientific excellence, whose purpose is to turn top notch research output into business that can be scaled up by top teams.
