The innovation hub is the centre of innovation, technology commercialization and quality job creation. Its primary purpose is to: ignite innovation, entrepreneurship, successful business development, and community revitalization, ensuring a local economy that generates wealth and shares prosperity. To achieve this, the strategic direction of the hub is to bring tech business to the grassroots level and birth start-up firms to create sustainable pathways of employment.
The IHub is going to become a catalyst for driving socio-economic change in Masvingo Province through propelling innovations as well as amplifying efforts of already existing ideas, and technologies like Agri-technology (smart farming) and future energy technologies (agrivoltaics, FPV). When fully functional, it will include: business incubators, startup (or seed) accelerators, co-working spaces, makerspaces, hackerspaces, and other structured innovation environments which supports diversity, inclusion and equality.
The GZU-IHub is seeking to provide solutions to the challenges we have in our economy today in-line with V2030.
Vision
The vision of Research and Innovation is to support world-class research and discovery by University faculty, staff and students, who ask bigger questions and generate better answers every day to bring brand enhancement and global visibility to the University.
Mission
The mission of the Research and Innovation is to advance the research capabilities of the University by striving for excellence in research across campus. We will strive to realize this by enabling the research success of our faculty through supporting university research centers, institutes and core facilities; providing research development, stewardship, compliance and safety services; and, securing strategic external partnerships for initiatives designed to grow institutional research capacity. At the centre of operationalizing all this, is the innovation hub
Core Values
Team work
Responsiveness
Commitment
The innovation hub is the centre of innovation, technology commercialization and quality job creation. Its primary purpose is to: encourage innovation, entrepreneurship, successful business development, and community revitalization, ensuring a local economy that generates wealth and shares prosperity. To achieve this, the strategic direction of the hub is to undertake research/projects in the following priority areas;
Activities of the Research and Innovation Department
Our Team
SECRETARY: Ms Delight Masocha
Ms. D. Masocha holds a Certificate in Secretarial Studies, Masvingo Polytechnic College. She is currently studying a Diploma in Secretarial Studies and also Bachelor of Commerce Honours Degree in Human Resources and Labour Relations Management. She has 9 years of experience in Secretarial field.
