Innovation drives are how SDC's research reaches founders. Each one is built on an SDC framework, runs on SDC OS, and is open to anyone, anywhere, fully remotely.
Entry point: awareness and identification
Built on SDC's Founder Identification Framework. Through the Founder Personality Assessment, participants learn the difference between building an SME and building a startup. It is the entry point to SDC for any founder, anywhere.
SDC's core venture-building frameworks as a structured online curriculum. It is free, and any founder in the world can enrol and complete the full programme on SDC OS. This is the main way SDC's frameworks reach founders globally.
For founders ready to apply the frameworks with guidance. A cohort-based pre-incubation programme on SDC OS with direct coaching, a peer community and ecosystem exposure. It produces SDC's richest long-term outcome data.
SDC's programme for student innovators across Africa. A structured path from the primer course and assessment, through community access and Startup School, to the SDC Global Buildathon. Free to join, with no prerequisites.
Together the drives form one route into SDC's work: first identification, then a self-paced curriculum, then guided cohort application.