This month's highlights
The Hub team
Chief Executive Officer
Dr Neville Comins
Business Development & Marketing
Victor Matooane
Market Support and Operations
Thibi Matshele
Enterprise Support and Networking
Martin Yuill
Incubation
Jill Sawers
Empowerment Initiatives
Tsietsi Maleho
Chief Information Officer
Modiba Ramohlale
Tel: +27 12 349 0376 / 70
Fax: +27 12 349 0322
Physical Address: Bld 46, CSIR site, Meiring Naude Rd, Lynnwood, Pretoria, South Africa
Postal Address: PostNet Suite 213, Private Bag X844, Silverton 0127,
Pretoria, South Africa
Website: www.theinnovationhub.com
Directors:
NL Moikangoa (Chairman), O Fuchs,
J Hattingh, AJ Jordaan,
Prof NC Maganyi, P Maharaj,
Prof JAG Malherbe, M Mokoena, M Petje
The Innovation Hub is a strategic partnership between the Gauteng Provincial Government's Blue IQ initiative, and SERA, the Southern Education and Research Alliance, a partnership between the CSIR and the University of Pretoria
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Good News bell rings twice!
The Good News Bell at the Hub was rung twice during May this year. This bell is rung only for the announcement of major achievements or events. Recently two of the start-up companies in the Business Incubator at The Innovation Hub had good reason to ring the bell and share their achievements.
Expertron, the first high-technology start up company to join The Innovation Hub's pilot Business Incubator announced that Grintek, a leading empowerment electronics and telecommunications solutions company, had acquired a 30 percent shareholding in the company.
Read more
The Naledi3d Factory, another of the start-up companies in the Business Incubator, announced its success in Uganda with an initiative to promote and develop 3D interactive (virtual reality) content for supporting education in developing communities. It now plans to extend this initiative to other African countries. Read more
Hub Progress Sheet
The establishment of The Innovation Hub is based on extensive international benchmarking and takes the local economic, social and environmental context into account. The full conceptualisation of the Hub has moved to the detailed design and implementation stage.
Read about progress made to date
Future milestones for the Hub's infrastructure development
Service level agreements, the last technical and environmental issues and the Master Plan for the development of The Innovation Hub are all reaching finality.
Read about the critical milestones ahead.
Learning from international best practice
Two of the Hub's portfolio managers recently spent some time overseas to interact with international experts and "learn from the best".
Jill Sawers, Manager: Incubation of The Innovation Hub Management Company, attended the National Business Incubator Association's (NBIA) 16th International Conference in Toronto, Canada to gain first-hand experience of international best practice and learn from incubator managers around the world. Read about some learning points from Jill's visit.
At the same time, Victor Matooane, Business Development and Marketing Manager at The Innovation Hub, was invited to participate in a science and technology delegation to Finland to examine the Finnish National System of Innovation. Read about Finland's support for technology and innovation.
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The newly-estabalished African Centre for Gene Technologies (ACGT) is a national centre of expertise in biotechnology with the aim of greatly boosting the development of the fledgling biotechnology industry in South Africa. Read more
Automotive manufacturing is South Africa's largest manufacturing industry. It is an important industry for job and wealth creation. The newly established Automotive Focus Group will play an important role in building world-class capacity in Gauteng, responding to the extensive need within the automotive manufacturing industry for human resource development. Read more
"What is a product? What should it cost? What should it look like? How is it made? Who will buy it and why?" Read more about the processes of creativity and innovation in the world of Industrial Design, highlighting the role of 3-dimensional design in high-tech innovation and everyday life, and the talent and activity in industrial design in South Africa.
Innovation can be defined as the application of new ideas, which result in benefits through cost-savings, efficiency improvements, and new products or services. It is not only creativity, but rather a means by which the outputs of the creative process are put into practice. Click here to find out more about the national Centre for Public Service Innovation (CPSI) established to identify, support and nurture innovation in the public service to improve service delivery.
Does anyone doubt that the ICT sector in South Africa is vital to our future? That it must grow to enable the growth of the overall economy? Click here for the address by Adrian Schofield of CompTIA Africa and President of the Information Industry of South Africa, delivered on behalf of business to the plenary session of the ICT Sector Summit held at Gallagher Estate at the beginning of June this year.
Don't miss a unique opportunity for learning and interacting with leading thinkers and practitioners in innovation. A forthcoming seminar on Innovation and Competitiveness by the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) at the end of July will provide new insights into generating business-changing ideas, developing new market-leading products and services, and nurturing open and inspired organisations where innovation can flourish. Click here to find out more.
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Alpha Investment Bank - An open-ended business and financial portal matching start-up entrepreneurs with investors, venture capitalists and angels, buyers with sellers of businesses and employers with career candidates. Register here to get free access to South African and international investors, venture capitalists and funders.
 The AIDC is a joint venture between the CSIR and Blue IQ initiative to support the Gauteng and the South African automotive industry in its drive for global competitiveness and its participation in world-class manufacture, design, engineering and testing and research development.
 Gordon Institute for Business Science - Improving the competitive performance of individuals and organisations through business education
 Science in Africa - Africa's 1st on-line Science magazine - June issue features deaf telephony, doping in sport, hypertension and more.
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