KQ Fahari Innovation Hub

The Kenya Airways Fahari Innovation Hub is a one‐of‐a‐kind center of aviation innovation excellence in Africa that facilitates creative and collaborative ways of providing much‐needed solutions to business problems.

The Hub is a centre for strategic innovation management offering opportunities for cocreation, networking, research, and learning; and is a springboard for new ideas and innovations that will help our communities and continent face current and future challenges.

The objective of the hub is to stimulate, manage and implement innovative ideas by providing expertise, resources, services,  mediation, and support to other business functions and partner organizations.

Our Programmes

Corporate Innovation Programme

Corporate Innovation Programme

The KQ corporate innovation program is a structured approach implemented to foster and support a culture of innovation within KQ through employee engagement and implement projects that deliver value to the organization. The program aims to encourage employees to generate new ideas, improve existing processes, and develop innovative solutions. Activities include ideation, idea pipeline management, training workshops, leadership support, resource allocation and collaboration programs for problem solving. 

Open Innovation Programme

Open innovation involves collaborating with external partners, including startups, academic institutions, research organizations, and other companies, to leverage their expertise and capabilities in driving innovation.

Activities include partnerships & collaborations, innovation challenges, incubation & acceleration of SMEs and ecosystem engagement. 

Open Innovation Programme

Our Accomplishments