To address a specific challenge in an existing or emerging entity or industry partner. The solution is created by collaborating with the brightest and most talented minds from diverse disciplines and backgrounds. Here, Origin links the challenge owner to the provider of the best solution to the problem. Origin’s solution providers are a pool of individual entrepreneurs and innovators, research labs, and specialized companies, including start-ups representing the best and brightest talent across Africa and beyond.
Origin is a place where serial innovators and entrepreneurs come to expand their research and access key partners, which in turn shortens their idea-to-market timelines and experiences, providing a platform to respond to communities’ needs and facilitate access to first-class laboratory facilities, connecting inventors to assistance and providing assistance directly. In this second scenario, Origin harnesses the best and most talented for the growth of new businesses through collaborative creation, learning, and innovation.
Origin is a place for freethinking, ideation, collaborative creation, and testing, where individuals and teams come together and provide different and opposing views. It offers incentives for collaborative ideation, creation, testing, and development of minimally viable products. It is a place that inspires and attracts some of the best talents with ideas that may seem out of this world (wild) but may be winners in the future, such as using technology to transform the energy, transport, health, and distribution industries.