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nvest Saint Lucia launched a virtual business incubator and accelerator programme in September 2020, an ideal concept which promised opportunities in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic. The launch marked significant development for Saint Lucia’s entrepreneurship space and Boost became the first of its kind in Saint Lucia. Boost was the result of years of research into the missing link between having a business idea and creating an operational business. The board of Invest Saint Lucia had commissioned a survey in 2019 that changed the agency’s perspective on approaching entrepreneurship culture to facilitate more local investment opportunities. As a community of strategic partners, start-ups, entrepreneurs, and
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business minded individuals working together, the virtual programme is aimed at transforming the naturally vibrant local entrepreneurship landscape even further. As a national programme, Boost’s role is to connect ideas to investors, to provide business-minded people with valuable information which will help grow their ideas. Boost will help support innovative individuals by matching them with professionals that have expertise in relevant industries and help translate entrepreneurship research into tangible improvements in the business world. Most of all, Boost expects to bridge the gap between businesspeople and the myriad of resources available in the public sector and agencies who can take them to success. Boost’s first initiative
