{"id":16715,"date":"2021-12-11T23:41:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T23:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulkagame.com\/?p=16715"},"modified":"2021-12-12T08:42:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T08:42:03","slug":"president-kagame-awards-hanga-pitchfest-2021-winner-kigali-11-december-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/?p=16715","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame awards Hanga Pitchfest 2021 Winner | Kigali, 11 December 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The Hanga PitchFest has equipped all those who participate with new tools to help you grow your companies.\u00a0I want to encourage you to take full advantage of the programs and services in our country to help start-up entrepreneurs succeed.\u00a0More public-private partnerships will be needed to accelerate the growth of this ecosystem, in particular in higher education and research.\u00a0The most successful start-ups are rooted in science or research and technology.\u00a0In all advanced economies, eventually which we want ours to be, the linkages between universities and entrepreneurship are deep and productive.\u00a0In Africa, it\u2019s not going to be any different.\u00a0I would wish for the finalists great success going forward. You have all our full support, including those who did not succeed, we want them to succeed next time.&#8221; President Kagame | Hanga Pitchfest 2021.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To view photos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/paulkagame\/albums\/72157720226586979\">click here\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>To watch the full speech <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DvP8amDU9dU\">click here<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Hanga PitchFest has equipped all those who participate with new tools to help you grow your companies.\u00a0I want to encourage you to take full advantage of the programs and services in our country to help start-up entrepreneurs succeed.\u00a0More public-private partnerships will be needed to accelerate the growth of this ecosystem, in particular in higher education and research.\u00a0The most successful start-ups are rooted in science or research and technology.\u00a0In all advanced economies, eventually which we want ours to be, the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","post-has-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16716,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16715\/revisions\/16716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}