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Innovators

By combining its online platform with on-the-ground partners, GIST creates education and training opportunities for young innovators in more than 130 countries around the world by providing access to U.S. experts and through in-country entrepreneurship networks and support systems.

Ecosystem Builders

Ecosystem Builders aim to bolster networking and entrepreneurial skills to build durable, long-term, supportive networks. The ultimate goal is to stimulate local entrepreneurial activity and ensure participants can grow their skills and scale their businesses together – both in their home country and through the GIST Network’s global connections.

Investors

GIST partners with in-country stakeholders in entrepreneurial ecosystems to bolster local financial support for startups. GIST is able to bring American investment experts to different regions around the world and provides an opportunity for in-country investors to learn how to create and sustain investor networks for entrepreneurs.

Partners

Since 2011, GIST has partnered with the private sector to reach over 27 million innovation community members globally and has provided training for over 15,000 startups who have gone on to generate over $250 million in revenue. This is done through competitions, startup trainings, and interactive online programs, implemented by AAAS and VentureWell. If you would like to explore partnership opportunities please contact Hillary LeBail.

General Pitch Competition

GIST runs a variety of Pitch Competitions that do not fall into the same category as Tech-I or Catalyst. These are usually associated with specific conferences or themes.

Business Incubation

The U.S. Department of State’s Global Innovation through Science and Technology, or GIST, Initiative launched this new program in the fall of 2019 for entrepreneurs in emerging economies.

The GIST Network is a public-private partnership created by the U.S. Department of State to give science and technology entrepreneurs access to needed resources and advice.

In order to create sustainable investment networks, the Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) Initiative has created the Investor Mobilization Training program (GIST Investors).

GIST Startup Trainings

GIST Startup Trainings empower young science and technology innovators and entrepreneurs through on-the-ground training and mentoring delivered by top U.S. mentors and in-country partners.

GIST Tech-I Pitch Competition

The GIST Tech-I Competition is an annual competition for science and technology entrepreneurs from emerging economies worldwide.

GIST Catalyst Pitch Competition

Applications open 2 August for the 2021 GIST Virtual Pitch Competition!

The GIST Innovates program is a multi-component training program to provide innovators with the training, mentoring, and resources they need to bring their ideas out of the university lab and into the market.

Resources

GIST TechConnect

GIST TechConnects provides entrepreneurs around the world with direct access to leading U.S. experts from business and academia, but without the travel and other related costs.

GIST Innovation Hubs

Innovation Hubs, or IHubs, are designed to build strong and vibrant networks of young science and technology entrepreneurs around the world.

GIST Masterclass Series

Through partnerships with U.S. Embassies and in-country startup incubators, the GIST Masterclass Series brings U.S. experts in entrepreneurship to a specific country for face-to-face interactions with stakeholders.

News

OrderEat wins 1st Place at GIST Startup Trainings Mexico

A teaching team from the University of Texas at Austin IC2 Institute coordinated with the U.S. Department of State to conduct a successful Startup Trainings for entrepreneurs for GIST (Global Innovation through Science and Technology) in Mexico City June 15-19, 2015.

Prime Minister Benkirane and his Harira

moroccoworldnews.com - San Francisco- I think that Morocco’s Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane is a decent, honest man.

Saudi Arabia shuts office of TV channel for fomenting sectarian tension

zawya.com - Home» News Article Nov 05 2014 more articles from Photo Credit:Reuters/Fahad Shadeed DUBAI, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has closed down the offices of a religious television channel accused of fomenting sectarian tension, after at

Start-up snapshot: Early-warning system to prevent devastating shack fires

Start-up: Lumkani, South Africa Lumkani's fire detection device. Lumkani’s fire detection device. In South Africa and across the continent, shack fires in informal settlements are a regular occurrence and result in the devastating loss of property and often lives.

Morocco: Marrakech Celebrates Arab Pioneers

news.google.com - Marrakech — The 11 winners of a recent award event in Marrakech are all examples of what someone can accomplish with perseverance and commitment to a dream.

UAE-based Filipino entrepreneurs consider health benefits of food imports

Filipinos in the UAE – whose agricultural lands back home are being planted with coconuts – have an opportunity to get into an industry which faces huge demand in the international market.

Startup MENA expands its network to Tunisia

After its success in Egypt, where the Startup MENA team engaged over 400 entrepreneurs in 2014, designing tailored workshops for the needs of the local ecosystem, plus its launch in the GCC, it is now the turn of Tunisia.

Pinterest hires first diversity head, launches two engineering mentorship programs

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Poets Take Advantage of Social Media to Spread Their Art Worldwide

moroccoworldnews.com - Meknes – Throughout history, poetry has existed as a prestigious art and sophisticated science, yet in recent decades, literature as a whole has been in decline due to the countless social networks, entertainment sites and

Power in numbers: Moroccan web entrepreneurs come together

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Presidential Proclamation -- National Entrepreneurship Month, 2014

whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary NATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP MONTH, 2014 - - - - - - - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Across our Nation, in laboratories and around kitchen tables, passi

Private equity investors in MENA seek a place in the sun