TETFAIR
TETFund Alliance for Innovative Research
…translating ideas into Innovation, Solutions & Enterprise
TETFAIR
TETFund Alliance For Innovative Research (TETFAIR) is an initiative of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, in collaboration with Innov8 Hub. It is a year-long programme for researchers and academics in Government Universities across Nigeria, who have ideas they want to translate into innovation, solutions and enterprise.
Participants applied in Teams (2-4 persons per team) and after rigorous evaluation by international experts, 19 Teams were selected based on the innovativeness, viability and tangibility of their ideas. During the programme, participants will be taken through various courses that combine the intricacies, processes and procedures of Innovation Development, Prototyping and Venture Creation.
The 12-month programme will run both in-person and virtually, designed and facilitated in collaboration with international experts. Its contents include:
- Access to Innov8 Hub, Abuja- an ultramodern innovation and fabrication hub.
- Access to mentorship from innovation, prototype development, entrepreneurship, start-up incubation and industry experts.
- Practical training, integration, creative thinking, business model development, patenting and advanced design methodology.
- Innovation pitching and showcasing to strategic partners, investors, financiers and stakeholders.
TETFAIR
- Opportunity to translate ideas and research into innovation, solutions and enterprise.
- All-expense paid participation in innovation and prototype development bootcamp at Innov8 Hub, Abuja.
- Mentoring and capacity enhancement by international experts.
- Access to an ultramodern innovation and fabrication hub, where participants will develop prototypes of their innovation at no cost.
- Access to investors.
- Access to, and interaction with industry experts.
- Patenting of innovation and invention.
- Participants will become Fellows of TETFAIR.
- Capacity-building of academics and researchers in the Nigerian academia, through the transformation of ideas into innovations and research into solutions, with huge potential for commercialisation.
- Equipping academia with the needed skills, knowledge, technologies and capacity to translate ideas into products.
- Promoting the Tripple Helix Synergy among the Academia, the Government and the Industry.
- Introducing academics to pragmatic steps of problem-solving.
- Impacting academia through knowledge, skill and ability transfer.
- Development of innovations with the potential to address challenges in the Nigerian society.
- Development of Made-In-Nigeria solutions to challenges in Nigeria.
- Economic advancement by way of venture creation.
- Job creation through innovation development, by the transition of innovations into start-ups.
- Introducing Nigerians to technologies, processes and procedures with the capability to solve critical challenges
- Creating self-sufficiency and productivity within the Nigerian innovation ecosystem.
- Revitalisation of the Tripple Helix Synergy among the Government, the Academia and the Industry.
- Nation-building through innovation, Research & Development, and entrepreneurship.
FOCUS
Agriculture and Food Technology
Environment, Energy & Circular Economy
Health & Accessibility
Information Communication Technology
Security
Transportation, Aviation & Shipping
Streamlining / Improving Production Process
Criteria for Selection
- A Team of 2 to 4 staff academics/researchers, from a Nigerian university (TETFund beneficiary institution), with an idea for innovation/invention, that falls within at least one of TETFAIR Focus Areas.
- An approval from the Vice Chancellor (through the Endorsement Form) of the Team’s university.
- Teams should comprise of individuals with multidisciplinary complementary skill sets needed to translate their idea into innovation and prototype.
Ideally, a Team typically includes:
- A member who has an idea for an innovative solution and has relevant knowledge and skills.
- A member who has additional complementary relevant skills (technical, scientific, mechanical, medical or engineering depends on your area of focus).
- A member with financial, business, entrepreneurial skills or orientation.
- The idea should be at the early stages of ideation and development, translatable into an innovation that includes a hardware/physical element (not only digital elements).
Stages & Timeline
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