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Innovation and enterprise development
Building credible pathways from ideas, research and local ingenuity to competitive enterprises, productive industries and scalable solutions.
Nigeria’s innovation and enterprise engine
Building a thriving Nigeria powered by innovation, technology and enterprise.
CIE Nigeria connects ideas, talent, institutions, technology, capital and markets to build sustainable enterprises, create productive employment and expand inclusive economic opportunities across Nigeria.
Our delivery approachNationally coordinatedLocally implementedOpportunity focusedGlobally connected↓
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Innovation for productive sectors and communitiesWelcome to CIE Nigeria
Turning Nigeria’s potential into enterprise, employment and shared prosperity.
CIE Nigeria is the national innovation and entrepreneurship platform of the CIE ecosystem, working to create the conditions in which Nigerian ideas, talent and enterprises can thrive.
Through national coordination, state chapters and strategic partnerships, we connect people, institutions, technology, capital and markets to build sustainable enterprises, create productive employment and expand inclusive economic opportunity across Nigeria.
Discover CIE Nigeria ↗From national priority to measurable progressA connected pathway from innovation to economic impact
- 01IdentifyPriority needs and opportunities
- 02InnovateKnowledge, ideas and technology
- 03ImplementSolutions proven in real contexts
- 04EnterpriseProductive and sustainable ventures
- 05AdvanceEmployment and economic development
National direction State delivery Measurable outcomes
CIE Nigeria’s central strategic framework
I-FEEDING
Innovations for Employment and Economic Development in Nigeria
I-FEEDING provides the national architecture through which CIE Nigeria aligns institutions, talent, technology, enterprise support and investment around priority challenges—turning innovation into implemented solutions, sustainable businesses, productive employment and measurable development.
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AlignInstitutions, programmes and resources around shared national and local priorities.
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TranslateKnowledge and capability into useful solutions, enterprises and productive systems.
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DeliverEmployment, productivity, market and development outcomes that can be measured.
Priority areas of focus
Concentrating national capability where innovation can create lasting value.
Our priority areas connect people, institutions, enterprise, infrastructure, technology, investment and markets around the systems Nigeria must strengthen to achieve inclusive and sustainable progress.
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Technology and digital transformation
Advancing responsible digital systems, artificial intelligence and emerging technologies around Nigeria’s real economic and social priorities.
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Talent, workforce and productive employment
Connecting demand-led learning, professional capability and entrepreneurship to employers, projects, contracts and dignified work.
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Venture building and commercialisation
Bringing expertise, validation, partnerships, finance readiness and market access around high-potential Nigerian innovations.
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Innovation infrastructure and ecosystems
Strengthening the institutions, platforms, communities and productive environments that enable collaboration and sustained execution.
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State-led inclusive development
Supporting locally owned chapters and delivery systems shaped by each state’s sectors, institutions, communities and development priorities.
Innovation across the real economy
Where Nigeria lives, learns, produces and trades.
CIE Nigeria approaches innovation as a practical force operating across sectors—not as an activity confined to technology companies or innovation hubs.
01 · Agriculture and food systems
Smarter production. Stronger value chains.
Applying science, technology and enterprise to productivity, processing, distribution and food security.
02 · Manufacturing
Building productive capacity
03 · Digital technology
Solutions designed around real needs
04 · Health innovation
Better access through useful technology
05 · Education and skills
Learning through creation
06 · Markets and trade
Making everyday enterprise more connected, efficient and competitive
Digital payments, commerce tools, business services and logistics can expand opportunity for traders and small enterprises.
Our programmes and initiatives
National platforms designed to move ambition into coordinated action.
Each programme responds to a defined national need, combining institutional collaboration, practical delivery and measurable pathways to enterprise, employment and development impact.
Explore all programmes ↗01
National convening
↗02NIEWS
Nigeria Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Workforce Summit
Discover the programmeDigital transformation
↗03Smart Nigeria Initiative
Technology-enabled transformation for institutions and productive sectors
Discover the programmeAI and emerging technology
↗04NigeriaAI
Responsible artificial intelligence for public value and enterprise
Discover the programmeTalent development
↗05Skill2Work Africa
Demand-led skills pathways connected to employers and projects
Discover the programmeVenture creation
↗06Skill2Create
Turning creative and technical capability into products and enterprises
Discover the programmeCollaborative innovation
↗Co-Build for Africa
Structured collaboration for teams building selected solutions
Discover the programmeKey delivery institutions
Specialised institutions aligned around one national mission.
CIE Nigeria’s institutional architecture separates public-interest coordination, venture execution and capability development—while ensuring that each institution contributes to one connected innovation-to-impact system.
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01↗National coordination and public value
CIE Nigeria
The national chapter responsible for strategic direction, ecosystem coordination, state chapter development, partnerships and public-interest programmes.
National strategyEcosystem coordinationState chapters
Explore institution ↗02↗Venture development and commercial execution
CIE Global Ventures Limited
The commercial platform for venture building, innovation commercialisation, strategic investment and operation of scalable enterprise platforms.
Venture studioCommercialisationInvestment platforms
Explore institution ↗03↗Innovation, enterprise and workforce capability
CIE Startup Academy
The capability-development institution preparing founders, professionals and delivery teams to build enterprises, lead innovation and perform productive work.
Founder developmentWorkforce capabilityVenture readiness
Explore institution ↗Our venture ecosystem
Ideas built to become
useful enterprises.
Selected ventures demonstrate how innovation can solve real problems, create productive work and open new markets.
Explore the venture portfolio ↗Venture · 01↗
Connecting organisations, talent, service providers, intelligent tools and trusted execution infrastructure.
View venture ↗Venture · 02↗
Expanding access to practical science, technology, engineering and mathematics learning.
View venture ↗Venture · 03↗
Enabling governed marketplaces, commercial corridors and wider market opportunities.
View venture ↗Venture · 04↗
Intelligent solutions improving how people power, manage and experience everyday environments.
View venture ↗Venture · 05↗
Connecting industry-led training with employment and enterprise pathways.
View venture ↗Venture · 06↗
Integrated intelligent systems supporting safer institutions, infrastructure and communities.
View venture ↗Build through CIE
Do you have an innovation with the potential to create enterprise, employment or development impact?
CIE Nigeria provides structured pathways for promising ideas, technologies and ventures to access validation, co-building, institutional partnerships, market connections and investment readiness.
Submit an innovation ↗State chapter network
One national vision.
Many centres of possibility.
CIE Nigeria’s chapter architecture brings national strategy closer to local institutions, enterprises and communities. Every state chapter has equal standing—connected by shared standards, while shaped by distinct local strengths and priorities.
View all states ↗National chapter architecture
36States+1Federal Capital Territory
A growing platform for locally owned innovation and enterprise development across Nigeria.
01North Central
Benue
Agriculture, enterprise and talent
CIE Benue State ↗02South East
Imo
Industry, technology and creative enterprise
CIE Imo State ↗03North Central
Nasarawa
Agriculture, minerals and emerging enterprise
CIE Nasarawa State ↗04South East
Enugu
Knowledge, energy and innovation-led industry
CIE Enugu State ↗05North West
Kaduna
Manufacturing, agriculture and digital capability
CIE Kaduna State ↗Partnerships and collaboration
Transformation is built through purposeful partnership.
CIE Nigeria convenes government, industry, academia, investors, development institutions, professional communities and innovators around shared priorities and clearly defined pathways to implementation.
We welcome partners who bring knowledge, technology, infrastructure, capital, market access or delivery capability to initiatives capable of producing measurable national and local value.
Partner with CIE Nigeria ↗Insights and updates
Ideas, evidence and progress shaping Nigeria's innovation economy.
Read CIE Nigeria's latest perspectives, programme developments and stories from across our national ecosystem.
View all insights ↗Featured perspectiveWhy innovation must lead to productive enterprise and work
Nigeria's innovation agenda must be measured by the enterprises it strengthens, the work it creates and the communities it enables to prosper.
Read the insight ↗Programme updateMoving from national conversation to coordinated execution
A practical platform for aligning institutions, enterprise leaders and communities around implementable priorities.
Read the update ↗Chapter networkBuilding state innovation systems around local economic strengths
How locally led chapters can connect distinctive resources, institutions and talent to a shared national direction.
Read the story ↗Upcoming engagements
Where ideas, institutions and opportunities meet.
National convening · Abuja
Nigeria Innovation Ecosystem Working Summit
A working forum for aligning institutions and delivery partners around the I-FEEDING agenda.
Venture session · Hybrid
Co-Build for Africa: Nigeria Venture Session
Structured collaboration around selected Nigerian solutions with enterprise and employment potential.
Partnership roundtable · Lagos
CIE Nigeria Partnership and Investment Roundtable
Connecting priority initiatives with institutional capability, strategic capital and market access.
Connect, contribute and build
Let’s build Nigeria’s innovation future together.
Whether you are an innovator, professional, institution, investor, policymaker or development partner, there is a meaningful pathway to contribute to the work.
Partners and collaborators
Transformation is built through partnership.
Organisations contributing expertise, technology, institutional capability and implementation support across the CIE Nigeria ecosystem.
