Shaping the future of an African venture capital landscape
Acknowledgments
Table of contents
Foreword
Foreword
Executive summary
1 Introduction to futures thinking and strategic foresight
     1.1 Futures thinking and strategic foresight
     1.2 The importance of futures thinking
     1.3 Introducing the foresight brief series
     1.4 The ITU approach to strategic foresight
     1.5 Objectives of the ‘Shaping the future of an African venture capital landscape’ foresight brief
     1.6 The case for venture capital in Africa
2 Sensing in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world
     2.1 Exploring signals of change for a venture capital landscape
3 Analysing and refining drivers of change
     3.1 Drivers and critical forces influencing future evolution of venture capital in Africa
     3.2 Drivers
4 Visualizing possible future scenarios
     4.1 Key drivers for exploring potential future scenarios
     4.2 Wildcard events
     4.3 Visualizing a wildcard future scenario
     4.4 Exploring a range of scenarios
5 Prioritizing the desired scenario
     5.1 Four transformational scenarios
     5.2 Visualizing transformational scenarios
     5.3 Stress-testing the scenarios
     5.4 Narrowing down to the desired scenario
     5.5 Identifying short-term ambition
     5.6 Identifying a long-term vision
     5.7 Enablers of the desired scenario
6 Actioning the desired future
     6.1 Supporting the entrepreneurial lifecycle
     6.2 A roadmap to maturity
     6.3 Actions to drive future-ready VC ecosystems in Africa
7 Managing the ecosystem
     7.1 Strength in stakeholder collaboration
     7.2 Activating implementation mechanisms
Annex
Abbreviations
Glossary
References