The Student and Alumni Affairs Department (SAAD) is responsible for the in-house incubator known as the Entrepreneurship Lab or ELab. The Botho University Entrepreneurship Lab (Elab) was launched in June 2016 to provide a space where students across the curricular spectrum can come together and share ideas, access resources, and come up with innovative approaches to problem-solving. The Elab is like an in-house incubator that supports students, graduate entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs. Student and graduate entrepreneurs are selected to be a part of the Elab after a rigorous process where their idea or business is vetted by experts from the industry and academia. Those selected become members or Elab Residents. Currently the Entrepreneurship Lab exists only on our Botswana campus. However students from all programmes in all campuses are exposed to entrepreneurial concepts as part of several modules such as Social Entrepreneruship, Entrepreneurship and Innovation etc that are part of their program of study. The aim is to expand the Entrepreneurship Lab to our Lesotho campus in the next phase and eventually to all campuses.
The primary objectives of the “ELab” are to be:
The Elab currently operates from the Botho University, Gaborone Campus in Botswana.
The ELab was established with the following in mind:
The Elab offers the following major activities to selected student and graduate entrepreneurs: