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CIE operates through a globally coordinated structure supported by country and regional chapters, ensuring local relevance while maintaining global alignment.
CIE is a global innovation ecosystem dedicated to driving economic growth, social transformation, and sustainable development across countries through strategic partnerships.
The Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) is a global innovation and enterprise ecosystem established to coordinate, strengthen, and scale innovation, entrepreneurship, and market-access initiatives across countries and regions.
CIE focuses on ecosystem architecture, programme and initiative design, institutional coordination, and strategic partnerships, bringing together governments, innovators, investors, development partners, academia, and the private sector within structured, coherent, and sustainable frameworks.
CIE addresses a critical gap in many innovation ecosystems: fragmentation. Rather than operating as isolated projects or disconnected initiatives, CIE provides a coordinated integration layer through its global, regional, and country chapters—enabling alignment, shared governance, scalability, and long-term economic and social impact.
To design and coordinate innovation ecosystems that enable entrepreneurship, enterprise expansion, market access, and sustainable employment through strategic partnerships and structured programmes.
A globally connected innovation ecosystem where ideas, talent, and enterprises move seamlessly across borders to create shared prosperity, resilience, and long-term economic impact.
CIE operates as a strategic coordination and enablement platform for innovation- and enterprise-led development across countries and regions.
Designing coherent national, regional, and sector-based innovation ecosystem frameworks aligned with development priorities.
Developing flagship initiatives, strategic programmes, and implementation pathways that translate innovation into enterprise growth and impact.
Aligning governments, institutions, and ecosystem actors through shared governance structures and coordination mechanisms.
Facilitating partnerships that enable enterprise expansion, market access, investment mobilization, and cross-border collaboration.
Supporting entrepreneurship, enterprise scaling, and talent development as drivers of productivity and sustainable growth.
Developing frameworks to measure, track, and scale the impact of innovation and enterprise initiatives across ecosystems.
CIE operates through a structured hierarchy of frameworks, initiatives, programmes, and projects, designed to ensure clarity, coordination, scalability, and long-term sustainability.
Long-term frameworks that define strategic priorities, partnership models, and implementation architecture across regions and countries.
Thematic and cross-cutting programmes that translate frameworks into actionable pathways for innovation, enterprise development, and market access.
Context-specific initiatives aligned with national and regional priorities, implemented through CIE chapters and local partners.
Targeted initiatives addressing specific challenges or opportunities, including pilots, sector-focused programmes, and cross-border collaborations.
Detailed programme and initiative pages will be published progressively as each enters its implementation phase.
CIE operates through a globally coordinated structure supported by country and regional chapters, ensuring local relevance while maintaining global alignment.
Partnership is central to CIE's operating model. CIE works through collaborative, non-exclusive, and impact-driven partnerships that bring together diverse stakeholders.
CIE welcomes partners interested in co-creating, supporting, or participating in structured innovation and enterprise ecosystems across countries and regions.
Become a PartnerCIE adopts a phased and adaptive implementation approach designed to ensure institutional alignment, partnership readiness, and long-term sustainability across diverse national and regional contexts.
The approach begins with ecosystem assessment, stakeholder engagement, and partnership alignment to understand local contexts, priorities, and opportunities.
Progressive design and activation of frameworks, initiatives, and programmes tailored to identified priorities and aligned with partnership models.
Implementation coordinated through CIE's global, regional, and country chapters, working in collaboration with public institutions, private-sector partners, innovation hubs, and development partners.
Digital platforms, tools, and supporting infrastructure deployed incrementally as programmes mature and scale, ensuring flexibility and context-responsiveness.
Continuous monitoring, evaluation, and adaptation to maintain coherence, shared governance, and accountability across the ecosystem while driving measurable impact.
This phased approach allows CIE to remain flexible, context-responsive, and impact-driven, while maintaining coherence, shared governance, and accountability across the ecosystem.
We welcome strategic conversations and partnership inquiries. Get in touch with us using the form below or through our contact details.
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38 Cotonu Crescent, Zone 6, Wuse, FCT, Abuja, Nigeria
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