01 / Start here
Take your research off the shelf
Create a researcher profile and tell us what you're working on.
For Researchers
Research that doesn't sit on a shelf.
Connect your work with Nigerian companies facing the problems it could help solve, and see it used outside the journal.
The research-industry gap
Where research stalls: Findings are written for journals and rarely reach the people who could use them.
What ESICON Innovation changes: Your work is matched to challenges companies have actually posted.
Where research stalls: Companies don't know which departments are working on their problems.
What ESICON Innovation changes: A researcher profile makes your expertise easy to find.
Where research stalls: Promising prototypes stall once the project ends.
What ESICON Innovation changes: Student teams can help test and develop your work with industry input.
How researchers contribute
Apply your research
Take on challenges where your findings give a real head start.
Mentor student teams
Guide teams on method and rigour as they build.
Find industry partners
Meet companies interested in taking your work further.
Show your work on video
Add video explainers alongside your papers, so non-specialists understand what you found.
Build a funding case
Industry partnerships and real-world results strengthen applications for grants such as TETFund.
Find research assistants
Meet capable students and graduates who can help with fieldwork, data and prototypes.
Designed to support TETFund-minded research
Evidence that your work has a real-world use can strengthen a funding case. ESICON Innovation is being built to help you record that industry engagement. It is not affiliated with TETFund and doesn't influence its funding decisions.
Take your research off the shelf
02 / I have a problem
Companies, NGOs and government
Got a problem worth solving?
Post it as a challenge with a budget in naira, and choose from teams who want to solve it.