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Universities as Innovation Ecosystems: A Framework for Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Venture Creation
(Open Access Research Journal of Science and Technology, 2026-06-18) Robert W. Bakyayita; Joseph Brian Musanje Kasozi; Violet Nagawa
When we hear about a successful tech start-up, its story often begins in a university lab or a dorm room. This paints a powerful picture, but it also raises a critical question: are these stories just lucky exceptions, or can they be the deliberate outcome of a university’s environment? Today, the role of higher education is rapidly evolving. Universities are no longer just ivory towers for knowledge dissemination; they are increasingly expected to be engines of innovation and direct contributors to economic and social problem solving. However, many institutions struggle to move beyond offering isolated entrepreneurship courses to creating a cohesive, supportive ecosystem that reliably transforms academic insight into viable ventures. This research tackles that very gap. We set out to map the essential blueprint for fostering a thriving culture of innovation, entrepreneurship, and start-up creation within the unique context of higher education. What are the core ingredients, and how must they work together? To find out, we analyzed case studies from globally recognized "entrepreneurial universities" and synthesized leading theoretical frameworks, like the Triple Helix model of collaboration. Our investigation revealed that successful ecosystems are not built on any single program. The most pivotal finding is that impact requires the deliberate and synergistic integration of four interconnected layers: the people (engaged students, incentivizing faculty, and connected men- tors), the platforms (funding, incubators, maker spaces), the culture (leadership commitment, tolerance for risk, celebrated successes), and the networks (strong ties to industry, alumni, and the community). A weakness in any one layer can stall the entire engine. This paper concludes by translating these insights into a practical framework for action. It offers university leaders, administrators, and policymakers a clear pathway to transition from ad-hoc initiatives to a strategic, embedded ecosystem transforming their campus from a place of learning into a dynamic launchpad for the future.
Economic performance and scalability of smallscale aquaculture systems: a comparative analysis of pond, cage, and aquaponics systems in the Lake Victoria basin, Uganda
(Springer Nature Link, 2025-11-10) Byabasaija, Syliver; Limuwa, Moses; Semyalo, Ronald
This study evaluates the economic performance, scalability, and resource efficiency of three small-scale aquaculture systems ponds, cages, and aquaponics in the Lake Victoria basin, Uganda. Data were collected from 169 respondents across Buikwe, Mpigi, and Wakiso districts through structured interviews, production records, and field observations. Financial performance was assessed over 5 years using net present value (NPV) and benefit–cost ratio (BCR) as key indicators. Results show that cage culture is the most economically viable and scalable system, with a BCR of 1.10 and a cumulative NPV of USD 1327.10, driven by efficient water use and high turnover. Pond systems were economically feasible, with a BCR of 1.03 and an NPV of USD 266.74, but they had limited scalability due to land requirements and lower long-term returns. Aquaponics systems were economically unsustainable, showing a BCR of 0.66 and a negative NPV of USD 3150.05, mainly because of high input costs and technical complexity. The study highlights the need for targeted interventions such as affordable input access, infrastructure development, and financial support to improve less profitable systems. Policy support, technological innovation, and capacity-building initiatives are recommended to boost productivity, increase adoption, and promote sustainable aquaculture development.
Decolonisation pathways: coloniality and Afican responses to COVID-19, Vol. II
(Uganda Martyrs University Press, 2024) Ngendo-Tshimba, David; Foreword by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
The prolonged COVID-19 lockdown across many countries in Africa, and the world at large, did take a huge toll on the resilience of societies, markets and governments. This second volume of Decolonisation Pathways makes it clear and bold that pandemics are too serious a matter to be left to epidemiologists and pathologists alone. Contributors to this volume start with an acknowledgement that although a pandemic is global, the COVID-19 pandemic was differentially experienced and responded to in various countries and locales in Africa. Many governments across the African continent kept claiming, and perhaps rightly so, that they were responding to the science of the day. The scientific voice echoed in those pandemic years, however, was not democratic enough in its scope, let alone stabilising.
Without doubt, not all African states turned to the West (Europe and North America) or to the East (China and Russia) for reference and rescue in ‘flattening the COVID-19 transmission curve’. But even counterhegemonic efforts observed in some African polities in the wake of the pandemic were still wrapped in anti-colonial, but not necessarily decolonial idioms and praxes. In the main, African responses to COVID-19 further exposed the enduring effects of European colonial rule insofar as crisis management in formerly colonised spaces is concerned. The force with which the dictates of COVID-19 science—whether from the West, East or homegrown—were implemented was indeed reminiscent of the European colonial experiment for many citizens and residents in Africa. The authors here refreshingly return the debate to traces of coloniality—and attempts at decoloniality, if any—in African responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read together, the chapters of this volume point to where it hurts most: they remind their readers that a great many responses to COVID-19 in Africa exacerbated the vulnerability of formerly colonised people, who already had historical layers of underlying conditions.
The life and times of the Uganda Martyrs: the pioneer African Martyrs from South of the Sahara
(Uganda Martyrs University Press, 2025) Ssemitego, John Baptist; Foreword By The Most Rev. Paul Ssemogerere, Archibishop of Kampala Archidocese
The Catholic Faith was brought to Buganda when the people in the region were still glued on tribal beliefs and any shift from the traditional worship was an abomination, the king (Kabaka) was an absolute ruler and a law unto himself and all his subjects had to give unquestionable royalty irrespective of what would be his demand. When the Catholic missionaries arrived, they found the Moslems and Anglicans already in the field and the local community had already been introduced to the worship of a Christian God and at this point several of the king's servants had been enrolled in all the two faiths, one after another. Those who had enrolled in Islam, which came first with the Arabs merchants, considered it superior to their ancestral pagan beliefs. When the Anglican missionaries arrived, they quickly embraced their teaching given the fact that the Arabs had soiled their mission with trading the locals as slaves.
Pere Lourdel quoted Paul Nalubandwa, the first Catholic to be baptized in 1880, as having told him that in the Islamic faith they had taught them that when you sin you wash and get clean, and later the Anglicans taught them that Jesus died for our sins, our task is to believe in him as our saviour and we are saved. Pere Lourdel later collaborated this narrative with that of Mathias Mulumba ...
Accounting Information Systems usage and financial performance of the hospitality sector in Uganda:
(Social Science and Human Research Bulletin, 2025-09-29) Kasenge, Martin; Namuli, Josephine; Arinaitwe, Evalyne
This study examines how Accounting Information Systems (AISs) Usage accounts for financial performance of the hospitality sector in Uganda and adopted a systematic review method of the hotel sector with focus on Fort Portal City. To assess financial performance of hotels in Fort Portal City, literature and published reports about financial performance of the sector were reviewed for a period of 7 years from 2017 – 20224. This period provided a trend in performance of the sector in the city. The study included studies focusing on the overall financial performance of the hotels sector on one hand as well as those that have had detailed focus on either adoption or use of accounting information systems to manage business information with intent of informing decisions. Data were sourced from Google Scholar and Science Direct databases for the period under review. The collected data were synthesized and findings summarized in a thematic manner to aid discussions. Results indicate that accounting information systems usage positively and significantly predict financial performance of Hotels through aiding timely capturing and processing of information which informs decisions that are important to enhance profitability, liquidity and return on assets. Further still, AISs usage results into: higher transparency, better risk management, and stronger financial controls translating into better investment decisions and portfolio allocations. Based on the findings, researchers conclude that AISs usage positively and significantly predict financial performance of firms. The study thus recommends that firms/ hotels should consider investing in more advanced and efficient systems to improve their financial performance.