• Hub welcomes new Board Members
• Adding value to telecommunications technology
• Join our Cyberspace Community
• Expertron patent receives a clean bill of health
• Hub's pre-incubation programme attracts innovators
• Hub progress sheet and infrastructure milestones
• ElectroSoft changes its name to Des-Pro
• Virtual reality excites visitors to Ubuntu Village
• A global look at business, social and urban development impacts on science and technology parks

Programming into the future
Innovation Hub hits the right note

The Hub Team
The Hub Board

Chief Executive Officer
Dr Neville Comins
Business Development & Marketing
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), J Hattingh, AJ Jordaan, S Lowitt,
Prof NC Manganyi, P Maharaj,
M Mokoena, I Naidoo, JSJ Nel, 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

The Innovation Hub Management Company (Pty) Ltd welcomes the appointment of two new members to its Board, as approved at the Board meeting in September this year.
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Adding value to telecommunications technology

Delivering on its commitment to provide value-added services technology, VAS-Tech (Pty) Ltd, one of the start-up companies in the pilot Incubator at The Innovation Hub, has recently concluded a contract in Asia Pacific.
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Join our Cyberspace Community

Increasingly today, companies in our network-based economy are becoming aware of the benefits of sharing ideas and working together. The Innovation Hub is creating the framework for a "virtual home" for high-tech entrepreneurs and we invite you to join us. Read more

Expertron patent receives a clean bill of health

Expertron Group (Pty) Ltd, a young startup company in the pilot Incubator at The Innovation Hub in Pretoria, has announced that the preliminary patent protecting its Cell-ID product has received a clean bill of health from the PCT Patent office in Brussels.
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Hub's pre-incubation programme attracts innovators

Innovative applications and international partnerships are some of the components of two exciting young companies that recently joined the pilot pre-incubation programme at The Innovation Hub. Read more

Hub progress and milestones

Read more about some of the recent highlights and developments at The Innovation Hub that add substance to our progress and milestones.

ElectroSoft changes its name to Des-Pro

New market opportunities often create the demand for a new identity. This recently became true for ElectroSoft, one of the early stage companies in the pilot Incubator at The Innovation Hub. Read more

Virtual reality excites visitors to Ubuntu Village

The Naledi3d Factory, one of the participants in the pilot Incubator at The Innovation Hub, was a proud of participant at the World Summit on Sustainable Development, having developed the Virtual Reality content for exhibitions by the City of Johannesburg, Eskom and Hewlett Packard at Ubuntu Village. Read more

A global look at business, social and urban development impacts on science and technology parks

Dr Neville Comins, CEO of The Innovation Hub, recently attended the 2002 International Association of Science Parks (IASP) World Conference, held in the beautiful UNESCO world heritage city of Quebec in Canada, to forge the future of science parks. Read more

The Innovation Hub is a member of: International Association of Science Parks (IASP) - Global network for Science/Technology Parks and innovation-based business incubators The National Business Incubation Association (NBIA) - The world's leading organization advancing business incubation and entrepreneurship

Building bridges between people and information
Jill Sawers, Incubation Manager at The Innovation Hub, recently presented The Innovation Hub to delegates at the South African Telecommunications Networks and Applications [SATNAC] Conference. Hosted by Telkom, the annual SATNAC Conference brings together the best brains from amongst industry leaders, overseas experts and Telkom's 12 Centres of Excellence at South African tertiary institutions. Click here and again on "Building bridges between people and information" at the bottom of the page for more information.

Insights from Incubator Managers
The National Business Incubation Association in the US is the world's leading organisation advancing business incubation and entrepreneurship. "Put it in Writing" is their latest book that offers insights from incubator managers and attorneys about how to craft formal incubator documents. Read more

Want to sustain competitive advantage?
Experts from industry and government recently discussed best practices for investing in innovative practices and R&D activities at a conference in Johannesburg on Managing Innovation, Research & Development to optimise, achieve and sustain competitive advantage. Click here to obtain more information on this and similar future events.

Increasing growth and employment
The GODISA Programme of the Department of Science And Technology (together with the Department of Trade & Industry and the European Community) aims to increase economic growth and employment creation through the enhancement of technological innovation, improvement in productivity and accelerated international competitiveness of South African SMMEs. Read more

Standards and quality go hand in hand
Standards help to ensure that goods and services have the same quality wherever they are made, ensuring safety and performance, and providing a common technical foundation for producing goods, services and systems anywhere. The 33rd World Standards Day is being celebrated on Monday 14 October this year.

Aerospace, maritime and defense technologies on show
The Innovation Hub participated in the Africa Aerospace & Defence Trade Exhibition 2002, held at the Waterkloof Airforce Base in Pretoria in September this year. This annual event focuses on showcasing expertise, hardware and technology in the aerospace, maritime and defence sectors and highlighted contemporary developments in these fields.

The Hub's participation in this prestigious event resulted from a perspective that the defence sector and its spinouts, such as advanced manufacturing, are key sources of innovative young companies, creating value for the Hub to interact in that community.

Marcus Evans - One of the world's leading business information companies delivering intelligence and strategic information through a variety of media, worldwide.

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.

Gordon Institute for Business Science - Improving the competitive performance of individuals and organisations through business education.

The International Organisation for Standardisation
One standard, one test, accepted everywhere.

The Southern African Research and Innovation Management Association
SARIMA has been established to advance the objectives of technology transfer interests of all players in South Africa and the region.

Science in Africa
Africa's 1st on-line Science magazine - October issue features natural born killers, oesophageal cancer hope and more.

Hub partners: Blue IQ and SERA