Global Alliance Africa is supporting Unilever to identify innovative solutions for online consumer products within South Africa
In this challenge, Unilever is looking to identify innovative approaches towards new circular business models for reuse and refill for online customers. The most promising solution provider will be selected by Unilever and may be given a commercial opportunity to deliver their solution in partnership, with additional support from Innovate UK KTN.
Global Alliance Africa is a UK-funded 6-year project that aims to promote job creation, inclusive growth and poverty reduction through knowledge transfer, skills building and opportunities to support businesses and innovations that can deliver scalable impact.
This Global Alliance Innovation Exchange challenge competition, delivered by Global Alliance Africa, is supporting Unilever to identify innovative approaches towards new circular business models for reuse and refill models within South Africa.
There is no one-size-fits-all solution and to bring about change different solutions need to be considered. This requires out of the box innovative thinking and new business models, especially for online retail. This is where Unilever want your help. How can re-fill and re-use be applied for online consumer products? Unilever is looking for innovative solutions to this challenge, from a business model to an idea for a specific product, using the refill and re-use approach.
Deadline to apply: extended to 15th May 2022.
If you’d like to run a similar challenge to this with your company, we are looking for large companies in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa seeking to find rapid innovative solutions to technical problems that their traditional supply chains can’t solve: for details of how our unique Innovation Exchange (iX) platform can help, click here.
Global Alliance Knowledge Transfer Manager Marisa Naidoo was interviewed on South African radio about the challenge: listen below.
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Global Alliance Innovation Exchange is an Innovate UK KTN programme specially designed to help UK and international organisations search for game-changing solutions to innovation challenges. Through the programme, we support innovation transfer by matching industry or societal challenges to innovative companies from across a diverse range of sectors. Our success is built on our deep sector expertise, trusted independence and global network.
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