Centres of Excellence for Entrepreneurship are a critical support platform to incubate new entrepreneurs and hand-hold them to start new enterprises through training, provide access to experts, technology and other resources. It closely works with the R& D and innovation centres of the universities.

The CoEE help students to:

• develop their entrepreneurial skill, acquire the skills that enable them to start business
• refine their products or services, get the guidance to find their first customers
• refine their business models and be able to establish their enterprise more quickly than if they were doing so on their own
• build network, commercialize research ideas and innovations that are developed in the R&D facilities of the Universities.



Five Centres of Excellence for Entrepreneurship (CoEE) have been established in the following universities:

• Addis Ababa University College of Business of Economics
• Adama Science and Technology University
• Bahir Dar University
• Hawassa University
• Mekelle University