Ashesi Health & Care Initiative Incubator (AHCI2)

The Ashesi Health & Care Initiative Incubator (AHCI²), hosted by the Center for Entrepreneurship at Ashesi is focused on the Health Entrepreneurship pillar of the Africa Health Collaborative. The Ashesi Health & Care Initiative is modelled on University of Toronto’s H2i Hub and Ashesi’s entrepreneurship center’s curriculum. It is focused and designed to build and grow health-related viable business ideas, early-startups and scale-up accelerator programs primarily for Ashesi and student of the 7 other African Universities who comprise the Africa Health Collaborative.

Students engage in group discussions and activities, personal reflections, and case study analysis to become informed citizens, policy actors, and future policy leaders. They also think critically about the implications of public policies in African societies and identify strategies to stimulate public policy change.

The course was co-created by the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies Learning Innovation design team, the Office of the Vice President International, U of T faculty subject-matter-experts who specialize in public policy and designed in consultation with Ashesi University.

Course Learning Outcomes

Ideation Stage

• Apply ideation methods to generate new and useful ideas.
• Identify the right part of their idea to test.
• Build prototype solutions.
• Refine ideas by sharing, and through feedback.

Early Start-up Stage and Scale-up Stage

• Ideate, design, & create value and solutions to the health problems.
• Access funding to move their prototype to a commercial item.
• Gain revenue, create jobs, raise investments, and make profit.
• Build prototype solutions
• Refine ideas by sharing, and through feedback.

Ashesi University

Ghana

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