Wits Entrepreneurship Clinic

We help Wits students and local entrepreneurs turn ideas into viable businesses.

The Wits Entrepreneurship Clinic (WEC) connects students with entrepreneurs. Students help shape ideas, write business plans, develop pitches, and solve day-to-day business problems in areas such as marketing, finance, and operations.

WEC works with an international network

The Clinic works with the University of Edinburgh, Tshimologong, and the African Circular Economy Network, with funding support from the British Council's Innovation for African Universities programme.

Our partners offer:

• Assistance with the identification of viable sources of funding and other forms of professional support through the leveraging of key relationships with ecosystem players.
• Assistance with broader issues of compliance and registration.
• Provision of entrepreneurial education and training, as well as mentorship.
• Ongoing research.

Our students offer:

• Assistance in the identification and exploitation of viable entrepreneurial opportunities through the screening and shaping of ideas.
• Assistance with the writing of effective business plans and development of high-impact pitches.
• Problem-shooting and solving of business challenges related to different aspects of the business, including marketing, general management, strategy, finance, risk identification and planning, project management, human resource management and the like.