BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.6.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news5249@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260702T132843 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260709T140000 SUMMARY:Erik Stam: "The Africa We Want: what African futures teach us about transformation" DESCRIPTION:It starts from an uncomfortable question: what if the entrepren eurship model we keep exporting\, Silicon Valley with its venture capital\ , unicorns and scale-at-all-costs\, is the wrong template for most of the world? When Erik Stam and Phumlani Nkontwana asked 100 entrepreneurs and e cosystem-builders across Ghana\, Kenya and Rwanda what they actually wa nted\, almost none said unicorns or rapid scaling. They wanted entrepreneu rship that keeps value local\, serves food security\, lowers barriers for people from poor families\, and strengthens their communities. Success\, d efined from within. \\r\\nFrom there this afternoon opens into the deeper question: Whose knowledge counts when we decide what development and inno vation are for\, and what can locally grounded pathways from the Global South teach the rest of us\, rather than the other way around? \\r\\nErik Stam's keynote is answered by four scholars who turn the entrepreneurial- ecosystem lens into a question of power and knowledge: Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsh eni (University of Calgary\, epistemic coloniality)\, Olugbenga Adesida ( Africa Innovation Summit\, African innovation ecosystems)\, Kwamou Eva Feu keu (Max Planck Institute\, futures literacy)\, and Angela Moriggi (Univer sity of Padova\, co-creative visioning). It closes with an open conversati on\, with online participants invited to put their questions in the chat. X-ALT-DESC:

It starts from an uncomfortable question: what if the entrepr eneurship model we keep exporting\, Silicon Valley with its venture capita l\, unicorns and scale-at-all-costs\, is the wrong template for most of th e world? When Erik Stam and Phumlani Nkontwana asked 100 entrepreneurs and ecosystem-builders across Ghana\, \;Kenya \;and Rwanda what they& nbsp\;actually wanted\, almost none said unicorns or rapid scaling. They w anted entrepreneurship that keeps value local\, serves food security\, low ers barriers for people from poor families\, and strengthens their communi ties. Success\, defined from within. \;

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From there this aftern oon opens into the deeper question: Whose knowledge counts when we decide what development and innovation are for\, and what can locally \;groun ded \;pathways from the Global South teach the rest of us\, rather tha n the other way around? \;

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Erik Stam's keynote is answered by four scholars who turn the entrepreneurial-ecosystem lens into a question of power and knowledge: Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni \;(University of Calgar y\, epistemic coloniality)\, Olugbenga Adesida (Africa Innovation Summit\, African innovation ecosystems)\, Kwamou Eva Feukeu (Max Planck Institute\ , futures literacy)\, and Angela Moriggi (University of Padova\, co-creati ve visioning). It closes with an open conversation\, with online participa nts invited to put their questions in the chat.

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