In 2017, a team of three staff members won a research grant through the BIUST Research Initiation Grant which was set up to encourage academic staff members to engage in research consistent with the BIUST Mission of being a research-intensive university. The project became known as the Reading and Writing Lab (RAWL) based at Mokgalo […]
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The RID is a collaborative project between the Department of Business Management and Entrepreneurship and The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology commonly known as ETH-Zurich. The RID is an online policy tool that is designed to measure local impacts of natural resource extraction. It does this by allowing for the collection of data of key
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The project’s main objective is to provide access to affordable solar energy solutions for rural communities in Sub-Saharan African rural communities. The project is being piloted in Jamataka Village, Botswana. The project team comprises three (3) international Industry Partners, and two Academic Partners: BIUST (Botswana) and Ulster University (United Kingdom). The BIUST team comprises academics
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The aim of the project is to explore the role of state universities in promoting technopreneurship among students and the communities in Botswana. The project also seeks to develop a framework for further enhancing technopreneurship in Botswana through universities with a view to promote economic growth. Principal Investigator: Dr M. Bomani
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The research project investigates the extent to which the level of entrepreneurial orientation- and its dimensional variables – innovativeness, risk-taking, and pro-activeness- of science and technology firms impacts on their success rates. It seeks to provide evidence on the role of entrepreneurial orientation, and other factors, on firm performance and consequently on economic growth. Principal
