“NEIP will accelerate job creation and provide entrepreneurial Ghanaian youth with a critical alternative to salaried employment.”
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President of the Republic of Ghana
The National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Plan (NEIP) exist to enable new businesses to emerge and give them the space to grow, to receive financing and business development services, to secure orders during the critical formative years, and to tap into a wide supply chain and network for their growth years, helping to create jobs at a widely distributed national level.
NEIP is set within the context of Ghana’s long-term strategic vision of consolidating it middle-income status, building an industry-driven economy capable of providing decent jobs that are suitable and sustainable for development.For NEIP to achieve it set objectives, NEIP will run on four (4) Key Implementation modules.
Provision of Subsidized Workspace for Young Entrepreneurs which will be resourced with business development facilities, meeting rooms, conference rooms, shared office space and other related service.
National Early-stage Business Competition through which candidates will be selected for admission into the Incubator Hubs and receive funding on set criteria.
Setting up of Industrial Sub-contracting Exchange to link large industries in the supply chain process. These small Businesses and Start-ups will become the supply chain for goods and service to feed the large industries.
This fund would be a privately managed fund but under the supervision and management of NEIP and the Ministry for Business Development. The capital under this fund would be raised through Government support, grants from International agencies and from the Private sector.
The National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Plan-NEIP, under the ministry of Business Development has entered into a memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with an Indian manufacturing company to provide manufacturing equipment under the Industrialization program of NEIP to feed into the one district one factory programme The MOUwas signed under the supervision of the ministry for Business…
DetailsThe All African Student Union (AASU) have honored the Chief Executive of National Entrepreneurship and Innovative Plan-NEIP at its 6th summit in Ghana for his extraordinary zeal of promoting students activism and entrepreneurship. Lawyer Kumah was awarded among Alhaji Aliko Dangote, a prominent Nigerian entrepreneur and the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Gambia, Prof. Dr…
DetailsNEIP CEO, John Kumah on Friday, April 20th, 2018, attended the annual product exhibition fair at the Biomedical Science Department of the University of Cape Coast (UCC). He used the opportunity to encourage the students and highlighted on the need for them to scale their ideas for the market. He revealed a special fund has…
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