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    A stakeholder founded business model for strategic management of innovation hubs: A case of Zimbabwe universities innovation hubs
    (Journal of African Education (JAE), 2022-08) Simuka, Joshua; Moyo, Michael; Chinoperekweyi, Justine; Jakazi, Victoria; Makoko, Gaone Nikki; Nyagumbo, Dorothy Rudo; Nyausaru, Paul; Bajilla, Winnie; Mutenherwa, Menard
    This article presents a synergistic framework for Organization Development (OD) practitioners, drawing insights from the Regenerate 2025 International OD Conference. The framework centers on Strategic Foresight, Regeneration, and Transformation as interconnected pillars for organizational evolution. It emphasizes the critical interplay of foundational elements knowledge, skills, and use of self - with key regenerative practices. Crucially, Nature-inspired Wisdom, Group Coaching, Storytelling, Appreciative Inquiry, embracing Artificial Intelligence, and Indigenous Paradigms, with Ubuntu as a cornerstone, are highlighted as profound influences that inform OD work and manifest regenerative potential in social systems. This framework equips practitioners to foster adaptive capacity, relational capital, and generative learning, guiding organizations toward flourishing, purpose-aligned, and resilient futures. It directly amplifies both the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Inner Development Goals (IDGs), demonstrating how inner transformation catalyzes outer growth, directly impacting the day-to-day lives of people and the health of the planet.
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    A stakeholder founded business model for strategic management of innovation hubs: A case of Zimbabwe universities innovation hubs
    (Journal of African Education (JAE), 2022-08) Simuka, Joshua; Chinakidzwa, More
    The importance of innovation hubs and business models continues to grow yet research remains concentrated in developed countries. Although several researchers provide evidence of the importance of innovation hubs, very little of similar evidence exists in the area of business models and innovation hubs. Empirical evidence of the business model formulation for innovation hubs particularly from developing countries remains scarce. The purpose of this paper was to establish a stakeholder founded business model for the strategic management of innovation hubs in Zimbabwean universities. To achieve this, a positivist research philosophy was adopted. A survey of 120 respondents constituting heads of academic departments, final year students, and 156 entrepreneurs in the innovation hubs was used. Closed-ended questionnaire was distributed online. The data was analyzed statistically using SMARTPLS3 and PLS-SEM was conducted. Results of this study provides that communication channels, customer segments, cost structure and key partners significantly influence the stakeholder founded business model of an innovation hub. These results imply that universities must develop contextual innovation hub business models that increase the rate of commercializing innovations as well as technopreneurship activities. The study contributes to literature by extending the stakeholder founded business model and innovation hub discussion to the university environment in a developing country context. This was important because business model knowledge is contextual, as such cannot easily be transferred from one country to the other.
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    AN INVESTIGATION OF THE PROFILES OF ZIMBABWEAN STEM UNDERGRADUATE FRESHMEN AS INPUT TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION FOR STEM STU
    (JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE, TECHNOLOGY & ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN AFRICA, 2018) Masunda, Makanzwa Mercy; Chitumba, Charles; Mushayavanhu, Tawanda Prosper; Simuka, Joshua