Nust sets up Technovation Centre

Zim Now Writer

The Bulawayo-based national University of Science and Technology (Nust), which is holding its 28th graduation ceremony today, is setting up a Technovation Centre whose foundation stone will be laid by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

The Technovation Centre is a facility where students, academics and industry will come up with various solutions to drive economic growth.

Nust director of communication and marketing Thabani Mpofu said students, academics and industry should bring ideas at the Technovation Centre

“Once completed, the Technovation Centre is expected to drive technological development in various sectors of the economy. It will be a tech centre for all technological innovations that our students, our academics working together with industry and business will have to come up with innovations to solve various problems in various sectors of our economy,” said Mpofu.

He said unlike the innovation hub which handles innovation that may not even be technologically driven, the Technovation Centre will drive technology driven innovations.

Mpofu said it is in sync with the university’s technology entrepreneurship curricula as Nust is a science, technology, engineering and mathematics driven institution.

He added that infrastructure at the university should support the stem programme which should lead to job creation.

“We are trying to make sure that we have the relevant infrastructure to support this entrepreneurial curriculum that we are promoting. This Technovation Centre will also be held in terms of transforming our students into job creators. We want our students when they graduate to leave with certain technological innovations developments inspired or driven by heritage-based Education 5.0,” said Mpofu.