Update on infoDev’s Global Forum on Innovation and Entrepreneurship
East London, South Africa from May 28 – 30, 2013 The Forum is co-organized with the South African Department of Science and Technology. The event is expected to attract over 600 participants, ranging from entrepreneurs, business incubator managers, policy makers and government representatives, financiers, local and international media, and develop ...
Entrepreneurs in Africa: forget innovation, focus on profitability
This article by Michelle Atagana originally appeared on Ventureburn, a VC4Africa publishing partner. This is a good article for debate. Join the conversation by posting your comment below. Let’s forget building the next Facebook, Google or Apple, writes Michelle Atagana. Instead African entrepreneurs should build “boring companies” that simply make ...
Accenture Innovation Index Awards | A new measure of your performance
South Africa’s success as a country is linked to the ability of its companies, and indeed public sector organisations, to innovate. Innovation will provide the catalyst for the development of new products and services essential to protecting existing markets from global competitors—and to opening up new opportunities around the world. Accenture d ...
SAB Foundation Social Innovation Award
The SAB Foundation Innovation Awards has been established with the objective of rewarding and up scaling innovative sustainable solutions to the pressing daily challenges facing low-income people, specifically women, the youth, people with disabilities, and people living in rural areas in order to improve economic growth and prosperity and the qu ...
The Role Of Social Business Software In Delivering Innovation
Thought Leadership Article: 16 May 2013 The Role Of Social Business Software In Delivering Innovation - Opening the doors to rapid, inclusive ideation for competitive advantage By Gys Kappers, CEO, WyseTalk Businesses today operate within a dynamic environment, shaped by variables such as evolving legislation, globalisation and economic volatility ...
History’s social entrepreneurs – By Kerryn Krige
Identifying social problems and finding innovative, progressive solutions is at the heart of social progress. Instead of being a new buzzword, social entrepreneurship should be understood as an age-old concept that is an enormous driver of human progress. Since the industrial revolution, our economic progress has accelerated at a rate unseen in pr ...
How tech entrepreneurship is driving development and innovation in Africa
email article print this post In just the past five years, Africa’s mobile phone market has rapidly expanded to become larger than either the EU or the United States with some 650-million subscribers. At the same time, internet bandwidth has grown 20-fold as hundreds of thousands of kilometres of new cables have been laid across the cont ...
5th Global Forum on Innovation & Technology Entrepreneurship – May 28-30, 2013
infoDev’s 5th Global Forum on Innovation & Technology Entrepreneurship May 28-30, 2013 | EAST LONDON, SOUTH AFRICA Meet with our global community and engage with business leaders, specialized networks, and take part in learning sessions on mobile, climate, agribusiness innovation, and incubation. The Global Forum is organize ...
How to Overcome Challenges and Obstacles as an Entrepreneur
The day you make up your mind to start a business, that’s the day your name will be written in the ‘’book of world changers’’. Being an entrepreneur isn’t as easy as some people think. If it was, we would have a high number of job opportunities. If you’re an entrepreneur or small business owner reading this content, congratulations! You’re indeed ...
SAINe Breakfast Event,17 May 2013 The Social Innovation Imperative
SAINE Presents A Breakfast Event for Innovators and System Thinkers proudly sponsored by Join us for a morning of inspiration where speakers will provide insight on: “The social innovation imperative” ► What are the global trends in social innovation and what does this mean for South Africa? ► What is Peer-to-Peer production/economy/co ...
Why Open Innovation Is More Than Hype
Innovation has been a business buzzword for decades. The word is tossed around so often and in so many different contexts that it’s meaning and value have been muddied, but innovation is here to stay and it will be one of the tools that will get us out of our current economic mess. by Stefan Lindegaard Open innovation as a term is even more sensiti ...
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