The Innovation Academy offers cutting-edge and specialized courses on Innovation and Startup Ecosystems as relates to the development and management of the National Innovation System. The courses are designed to respond to the ever-changing National Innovation System and trainee/client needs. The courses are intended to acquaint actors within the ecosystem on the role of innovation in economic development. The courses offered at the Academy seek to ensure that innovation becomes a way of life of everyone within the country. The courses offered have adopted a Competency Based Approach. The uniqueness about the Academy programs is that participants have the opportunity to interact and learn from renowned players within the innovation space and startup practitioners drawn from the Country, Region and across the Globe. The programs allow participants to enrich their knowledge through group work, best practice, case studies, problem solving, critical thinking and interactive exercises and excursions.