This document discusses an innovation hub that provides professional skills training, commercializes and scales high-impact businesses, and drives social-impact products addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The hub supports businesses leveraging innovation and technology to solve poverty and its symptoms in Africa by accelerating idea-to-commercialization. It also discusses inclusive business models that provide goods, services, and livelihood opportunities to people living on less than $8 per day by including them in company supply chains and as customers. Two case studies of inclusive business models providing sanitary pads and electrical power in Africa are also mentioned.

1. RESEARCH
&
SUSTAINABILITY
LEARNING
DIGITAL
PRODUCT
INCUBATION
ACCELERATION
info@ekoinnovationhub.com
PURPOSE
Professional skills
training
- Data School
- Media School
Commercialize &
scale high-impact
businesses
Drive social-impact
products
addressing SDGs
Accelerate idea-to-
commercialization
curve
SUPPORTING BUSINESSES LEVERAGING
INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
In solving poverty and its symptoms in Africa
PURPOSE
ACCELERATING AND
COMMERCIALIZING INNOVATION

2. • UNDERSTANDING INCLUSIVE
BUSINESS MODEL.
• GAIN INSIGHTS TO DRIVE
INNOVATION FOR YOUR
BUSINESS.
• DISCOVER THE POWER AT THE
BOTTOM OF THE PYRAMID
(MASS MARKET).

3. The BOP: ASPIRATION towards a ‘better’ life

4. Inclusive business is a private sector
approach to providing goods, services,
and livelihoods on a commercially
viable basis, either at scale or scalable,
to people at the base of the pyramid by
making them part of the value chain of
companies’ core business as suppliers,
distributors, retailers, or customers.
Inclusive Business Model

5. An inclusive business customizes its
business model to take advantage of
opportunities to work with people who
live at the BOP on less than $8 per day
in purchasing power parity or without
access to the basic goods, services, and
income generation opportunities that
they need

6. Inclusive business model is helping businesses turn
underserved populations into dynamic consumer markets and
diverse new sources of supply. In the process, businesses are
developing product, service, and business model innovations
that have the potential to tip the scales of competitive
advantage in more established markets.

7. 1. clean water
2. electrical power,
3. modern communications,
4. health care,
5. education,
6. financial services, and
7. income-generating opportunities to millions of people at levels of
quality and affordability they have never experience

8. Case Study 1
Sanitary Pad for underserved
girls in Africa
1. Serving young women
2. Retailing by women
3. Low price

9. Case Study 2