Innovation News
NineSigma and The Research Institute for Innovation and Sustainability Partner to Advance Open Innovation across Southern Africa
PRETORIA, Open Innovation Office, The Innovation Hub – July 13, 2010 – NineSigma, the leading provider of open innovation solutions, announced today they are partnering with The Research Institute for Innovation and Sustainability (RIIS) to deliver open innovation services to companies and government entities throughout the Southern African Development Community . NineSigma and RIIS have [...]
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ICT Africa Summit 2010, 10-12 August 2010
Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, South Africa
The ICT sector of the African region has experienced major changes throughout the last decade. The ongoing fast development is to a large extent due to a general political determination to reduce the digital divide and effectively fight against under-development and poverty. It is fuelled by drastic [...]
10 Types of Innovation by Doblin
Most organisations think innovation applies only to the development of new products when it actual fact innovation can be implemented throughout the whole business process. Doblin developed 10 Types of Innovation Framework that can help organisations to identify new opportunities in finance, process offering and delivery. Organisations that are able to simultaneously innovate across multiple [...]
8Jul2010 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
Innovation Summit – 2010
The eagerly anticipated Third Innovation Summit takes place at the Innovation Hub from the 26th to the 27th August 2010. The Summit will take delegates on a journey which explores the essence of innovation in action.
Stories about Innovation
The journey begins in Africa and a deep, rich, African setting provides the back drop for an [...]
FEMTECH business support services
A new six-month programme, FEMTECH, is being launched to provide business support services to women who wish to establish and grow their own technology-enabled businesses. The programme is being funded by the Embassy of Finland, South Africa and is being executed in collaboration with the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
Download the pdf here: FEMTECH [...]
African regional mobile applications: Calls for expressions of interest by Dr Tim Kelly
Dr Tim Kelly from infoDev/Work Bank in USA has recently visited South Africa to discuss their proposals to establish an African regional mobile applications laboratory, in conjunction with the government of Finland and Nokia. Their plans have moved forward and they have recently published two calls for expressions of interest on our website at: www.infodev.org:
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Vodacom announces low cost web-focused computer: A South African first
Vodacom is pleased to announce the unprecedented arrival of Linkbook – a low-cost compact computer designed specifically to provide users with simple and affordable Internet access.
The Linkbook’s operating system is geared primarily towards a user-friendly web experience; from email to social networking to browsing, as well as basic Open Office – everything a business entrepreneur, [...]
Vodacom Social Exchange Challenges 2010
Vodacom is sponsoring three Challenges on the Betavine Social Exchange with a combined prize of R80 000.
The three Challenges are completely open, inviting mobile developers, local businesses and entrepreneurs and students to get together to create solutions to Challenges in:
• Education & Training, with Community Partner the Meraka Institute
• Health “fighting HIV/Aids”, with Community Partner CellLife
• Community [...]
UNECA seeking to expand and launch the Network of African Centres for Technology Development and Transfer
Dear all,
The United Nation Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) is seeking to expand and launch the Network of African Centres for Technology Development and Transfer. The target members are managers and heads of technology development and transfer units at African universities and research centres, and national technology transfer offices – where available.
We already [...]
The 50 most innovative companies in the world
For the first time since Bloomberg BusinessWeek began its annual Most Innovative Companies ranking in 2005, the majority of corporations in the Top 25 are based outside the U.S. The reason: the new global leaders coming out of Asia.
In the past decade, as the U.S. was losing an estimated 2.4 million factory jobs to China, [...]
IBM’s second Africa innovation centre
Multinational IT giant IBM has opened an Africa Innovation Centre in Cape Town to foster the development of information technology and business skills, and to expand its customers and business partners in the region.
The centre, which joins a growing worldwide network of 47 centres, will help local businesses develop and deploy new technologies that support [...]
SA’s world competitiveness ranking may climb in 2010
The 2009/2010 global competitive index was released on Tuesday, 8 September 2009 by The WEF. South Africa is ranked 45th out of 133 on their overall competitiveness. Interesting is that South Africa’s financial markets ranking moved up from 24th to 5th place. Our banking system was not bailed out by government or [...]
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South Africa aims for biotech top 10
Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor says the biotechnology industry must be developed in South Africa and the region to ensure the advancement of therapies for HIV/Aids, tuberculosis and other diseases.
She said that South Africa had long recognised the importance of a successful biotechnology industry, and many structures had been established across the country to [...]
Innovation agency board appointed
The board of South Africa’s Technology Innovation Agency, a new public body to stimulate the development of technology-based products and services in the country, has been appointed.
Announcing the members of the board in Johannesburg this week, Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor said the agency would use South Africa’s science and technology base to develop [...]
Birth of the SA Innovation Network (SAINe)
By Henra Mayer
Establishing the South African Innovation Network (SAINe) has been a dream, a vision born out of the realisation and belief that South African innovation is unique. SAINe is context driven to fit our landscape and to enable us to compete with the best in the world as far as innovation and creativity is [...]
