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Innovating from the bottom up
Companies don’t need a ton of money to do innovative things. What they need is a willingness to listen to good ideas from their employees. Here are seven ways to innovate from the bottom up.
29Mar2012 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
An initiative from the Department of Economic Development and Tourism (DEDAT) | FET College lecturer – Occupational Trainer project
Another successful partnership project with Department of Economic Development and Tourism, Workforce Development Unit and SAOGA is the FET College lecturer – Occupational Trainer project. A unique advantage of the project is the opportunity it provides for cross pollination between industry occupational trainers and FET College lectures. Twenty Fitting related FET College lecturers from Colleges of Cape Town-, False Bay-, Northlink and West Coast FET’s have the opportunity to actively engage with industry occupational trainers and with the industry to compare notes on training and new developments in industry.
29Mar2012 | Saine | 1 comment | Continued
Feedback on the SAINe Breakfast Event | 14 March 2012
The Department of Economic Development and Tourism, at the inaugural SAINe breakfast event on the 14 March 2012, highlighted the importance of a supporting a culture of innovation through various stakeholders showcasing Western Cape initiatives reflecting this. Amongst the various initiatives was The Stellenbosch Idea Competition.
29Mar2012 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
Creatives and techies collaborate for innovation – 15 March 2012
Creatives and techies collaborate for innovation
Are you creative and do you (want to) use digital tech to create change?
Apply now for British Council’s innovation incubation weekend March 23-25!
Workshop on Intellectual Property – 29 March 2012
The Regional Innovation Forum and Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University jointly invites you to a workshop on Intellectual Property
on 29 March 2012
Business Building Workshop 30 & 31 May – Cape Town
Business Building With an ICT and MOBILE focus – Part of the Business Building Workshop Series 2012
WHEN: 30 & 31 May 2012
WHERE: 5th Floor, 125 Buitengracht Centre, Buitengracht Street, Cape Town
PRICE: R 1 950 per person (incl. VAT) for both days– SAINe members and groups of 5 and more receive 10% discount.
Core 77 Design Awards
Recognizing excellence in all areas of design enterprise, the Core77 2012 Design Awards celebrates the richness of the design profession and its practitioners, expanding categories, leveraging online scale, increasing transparency and decreasing plane fuel in the process.
8Mar2012 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
What to expect from SAINe this year
SAINe is looking forward to a year of collaboration, networking and innovation!
Breakfast Events, ‘Innovator of the month’ and discount to innovation workshops and events! This is what you can expect!
SAINe Innovator of the Month – Kerryne Krause-Neufeldt
The SAINe Innovator of the Month for February is Kerryne Krause-Neufeldt. Kerryne is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for innovation, technology, brand building and globalisation.
1Mar2012 | Saine | 2 comments | Continued
SAINe Breakfast Event – 14 March 2012 – Cape Town
We take pleasure to invite you to the SAINe Breakfast Event!
SAINe in collaboration with The Western Cape Department of Economic Development and Tourism is hosting a complimentary breakfast event on the14th of March 2012 at the Cape Peninsula University of technology, Cape Town Campus. The main aim of the event is to showcase through examples, the landscape of the Regional Innovation Systems Framework (RISF) for the Western Cape.
27Feb2012 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
COMPANIES DON’T INNOVATE, PEOPLE DO – By Jac Spies
Inventive behavior is usually stifled within legacy organizations resisting change, because of the emotional safe and warm feeling in the cloak of “that’s how we have been doing it the last hundred years”.
20Feb2012 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
Regional Innovation Forum – Eastern Cape Innovation Strategy
The Regional Innovation Forum would like to alert you to the following workshops being organised by INNOVATE Eastern Cape, an entity of the Department of Economic Development Environmental Affairs and Tourism:
Eastern Cape Innovation Strategy Public Participation Workshops
Do South African organisations employ the required strategic intelligence to ensure innovation success?
In September 2011, Innocentrix and Digital Bridges conducted an opinion poll on the organisational innovation management approaches employed by South African organisations and obtained the opinions of senior innovation leaders in some of South Africa’s most respected organisations on the topic.
20Feb2012 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
inSAINe Breakfast Event with Gift Nkuna – 24 February 2012
Join us at the first SAINe event for 2012 which promises to be unique and inspiring.
Author, entrepreneur and creator of the game SuperPreneur, Gift Nkuna, will showcase his game and bring out the inner entrepreneur in you!
Enhancing quality and productivity: A workshop by SARIMA (20% discount to SAINe members)
The Southern African Research and Innovation Management Association (SARIMA) is hosting a workshop on Enhancing quality and productivity: Project management for research managers in scientific research laboratories and institutes in partnership with the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa) and The AURUM Institute (AURUM).
9Feb2012 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
