Approval Date: June 8, 2021

Key Objectives:

The UGIRIE focuses on award-winning concepts in business that will facilitate the expansion of business opportunities for young people. Programmes and courses offer practical approaches to establishing, accelerating, and scaling up businesses. In its short existence, this institute has produced several exhibitions of innovations and inventions of staff and students of the University has published a book on select University of Guyana Innovations, has progressed the work of design and development of various flours using local tubers such as sweet potato, pioneered the resuscitation of the Mocca Market day, and hosted several workshops on entrepreneurship and innovation for students and communities from which over 20 several cottage businesses have emerged. UGIRE also works on protection, patents and intellectual property for UG-centered inventions.