Inventor Academy
Master the 7-Stage Innovation Pipeline
Empowering African Health Innovators
A dedicated half-day Inventor Business Academy running on the afternoon of Day 2 — 18 June 2026. Four structured, interactive sessions each running 90 minutes: 40-minute expert presentation, 30-minute panel discussion with Q&A, and 20-minute practical workshop. Open to all researchers, postgraduate students, and early-stage innovators attending the conference.
4 Tracks
Comprehensive Curriculum
Half-Day • 18 June
Immersive Learning
Academy Curriculum
Four specialized sessions mapping directly to the E2E Healthcare Innovation Eco-system.
How to Set Up a Successful Health Start-up
Move from idea to incorporated entity. Covers choosing the right legal structure, writing a fundable business plan, understanding the regulatory landscape (KEBS, PPB, Kenya Medical Devices Authority), protecting your invention from day one, and MVP design for resource-limited settings.
Essential Business Skills for Health Innovators
Core operational skills every founder must master: accounting and financial management, taxation in Kenya, marketing a health innovation, human resources essentials, company registration step by step via the BRS portal, and licensing and permits.
Assembling a Winning Team
The human dimension of building a health innovation company: identifying skills gaps, co-founder dynamics, hiring your first employees, building an advisory board, team culture and resilience, and gender and inclusion in health innovation.
Collaboration with Limited Resources
How strategic collaboration multiplies impact without multiplying cost: university-industry partnership models, consortium grant writing for Wellcome Trust, EDCTP, NIH Fogarty and UKRI, open innovation, leveraging the KUKHA network, and North-South and South-South partnership dynamics.
KUKHA Certificate in Health Innovation Business Skills
Awarded upon successful completion of all four sessions (A–D). COHRIC will publish full session materials in open-access format following the conference.
- Verifiable digital badge
- Jointly recognised by KUKHA and partnering UK and Kenyan academic institutions
- Alumni network access
- Direct pipeline to OHIFA pitch
Secure Your Spot
Spaces in the Inventor Academy are strictly limited to ensure high-quality mentorship. Registration requires an approved conference delegate pass and a brief statement of research interest.