Home Past issues The Innovation Hub
 
  Volume 7 Number 10
December 2008
   Associated Activities
In this issue
 
Other info
 

Ready and able to immediately contribute towards taking the Information Communications & Technology (ICT) sector forward, 16 postgraduate students have successfully graduated from the CoachLab™ programme at The Innovation Hub on Thursday, 27 November 2008.


“If you haven’t succeeded in business, it’s because you haven’t asked,” stated Colleen Larsen from Women in Finance who co-hosted the Global Business Incubation Day Celebration with Maxum Business Incubator at The Innovation Hub on Monday evening, 8 December 2008.


The Innovation Hub, as a participant in the National Cell C ‘Take a Girl Child to Work Day’ hosted 96 girls with 46 participating tenant companies. The event proved to be a great success with the Marketing, Business Development and Value-Added-Services Programme, inviting the hosted schools Principal and teachers for a site tour and lunch prior to the event.


Since it’s inception, The University of Pretoria has been one of The Innovation Hub’s primary academic partners and through the years, this relationship has been of considerable value. This year a number of collaborations were effectively established between various Hub tenants and the University of Pretoria.


Business Beat, a new initiative of Maxum Business Incubator of The Innovation Hub, in partnership with the University of Pretoria, has just introduced a competition that will empower prospective entrepreneurs of technological innovation to shape their innovative ideas into solid, profitable businesses.


The first Solar Race to be held in South Africa, the first (International Association of Science Parks) IASP World Conference to be held on the African continent and workshops for South African Women ICT entrepreneurs; are some of the many achievements that were highlighted by The Innovation Hub teams at the annual Pub@Hub event, which took place on the 26th of November 2008.


Francine Chirambo joined The Innovation Hub at the beginning of November 2008 as the Financial Accountant. Prior to joining the Innovation Hub, she worked at Mikwa Investments as a Computer Programmer. She later joined the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA) as Knowledge Management Systems Co-ordinator and then became the Financial Assistant.


Several tenants of the Hub accepted the dare to illustrate their prowess on Nintendo WII during the Vaseline For Men Wii Challenge...

QS World MBA Tour

Interview with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak

2010 ICT spend revealed

Hot Links

Encouraging entrepreneurs: tips for government policy

South African Investment Network

ICT's doing things