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The Innovation Hub reveals a new brand identity for pioneering programme aimed to promote industry-driven innovations
The Centres of Expertise Pilot Programme, launched earlier this year, has been re-branded to ACTIVATOR™ “Innovation through Collaboration” to create a unique South African identity.
Three Hi-Tech Companies graduate from Innovation Hub’s Maxum Business Incubator
Three innovative start-up businesses graduated from the Maxum Business Incubator in October: Versec Systems, SkillPod Media and Periseo (Pty) Ltd.
The sun shines at finish line of SA’s first Solar Race
Six vehicles finished the first 11-day, 4 957km International Solar Race to be held in South Africa at The Innovation Hub. The countries represented in the race were South Africa, Japan, Malaysia and India.
The Innovation Hub is elected to Chair newly formed IASP Africa Division
Mr Tsietsi Maleho has been elected to Chair the first IASP African Division for the next two years, leading 14 African countries into a novel African IASP era.
A world-class conference yields world-class outcomes
The Innovation Hub hosted a successful XXV IASP World Conference - the first: to be held on the African continent, to have hosted 528 delegates and dignitaries from 60 countries, to receive the highest number of abstracts received in response to the Call of Papers.
Maxum National Workshops target Women in ICT Sector
The Maxum Business Incubator, in partnership with Meridian International Centre, hosted a series of three regional workshops in Cape Town, Durban and Pretoria designed to help women entrepreneurs with business development and expansion.
The Innovation Hub’s CoachLabTM awarded Isett-Seta’s Excellence Award for Leadership Development
CoachLabTM , leadership development programme for postgraduates, received an award from the Information Systems, Electronics and Telecommunications Technology SETA (ISETT-SETA) in recognition of the programme’s successful execution of its mandate as an Institute of Sectoral or Occupational Excellence (ISOE) in the last year.
Hub wins bid to host IASP World Conference in Africa for the first time
The Innovation Hub successfully presented a bid at the Annual General Meeting of the International Association of Science Parks (IASP) in Beijing in 2005 to host the 2008 IASP World Conference in Gauteng, and on the African continent for the first time.
Maxum Business Incubator reports significant success rate
The Hub's Maxum Business Incubator reported an overall success rate of 80% in developing start-up companies to self-sustainability, with 30 companies and 183 staff members (cumulative) having participated in incubation programmes since the Incubator's inception in 2000.
dti's aerospace initiative moves to the Hub
The Department of Trade and Industry's Aerospace Industry Support Initiative (AISI) has located its project management office at The Innovation Hub for a three-year incubation period to roll out its strategy aimed at repositioning the industry for future growth.
CoachLab™ successfully prepares participants for business world
Thirteen postgraduates successfully completed the 2005 CoachLab™ leadership programme, a partnership between the Hub, universities and industry to develop world-class human capital for the applied science and technology industry. MTN became a partner in 2006.
First MIT FabLab established at the Hub
Using the MIT FabLab model as baseline, the first South African lab was established at Hub in June 2005 to give users the ability to use advanced equipment to conceptualise, design, develop, fabricate and test almost anything from inexpensive and readily available materials.
Incubator graduates celebrate business success
Seven high-tech start-ups have reported annual turnover of between R1.5 million and R30 million since exiting the Hub's Maxum Business Incubator over the last two years. All seven have commercialised new products in local, regional and international markets.
Tshwane Metro adopts locally developed novel electricity vending system
The City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality commissioned the Cell Power prepaid electricity vending system, developed by Hub tenant Expertron, for roll out in communities through vendors that use standard cellphones to vend electricity while earning commission on sales.
Graduates participating in Smart City project receive entrepreneurial skills
The Smart City Community Contact project - a joint venture between The Innovation Hub, Youth Development Trust and Tshwane Metropolitan Council, with USAID funding and technology support from Khanyisa Real Systems - trained graduates to become high-tech entrepreneurs.
Hub selected as local partner for international programme
The Innovation Hub was chosen by US-based The York Group as the local partner in their prestigious International Channel Development Programme (ICDP), which builds international partnerships and develops global sales channels for technology companies.
Entrepreneurs from Norway intern at the Hub
Five students from the University of Oslo in Norway interned at the Maxum Business Incubator as part of a Norwegian School of Entrepreneurship internship programme and interacted with entrepreneurs to gain real-time work experience.
TCI-Thoreb becomes part of the Gautrain consortium
Resident company TCI-Thoreb is a sub-contractor to Bombardier Transportation, a partner in the Bombela consortium, to manage and implement technology applications and systems integration for the Gautrain Rapid Rail Link.
D-I-Y toolkit for patent applications
A partnership between precinct residents Trydian Interactive and Smit & van Wyk Patent Attorneys Inc saw an innovative first for the intellectual property community - a self-help patent toolkit for inventors who wish to file provisional patent applications themselves.
Fire risk rating system developed to increase safety levels
The Department of Water Affairs contracted Hub tenant Agileworks to help develop and roll out the National Fire Risk Rating system, as part of new legislation to curb veldt fires, to increase safety levels in areas where there is a high probability of fire.
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