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LAUNCH: Regional Innovation Forum : 04 June 2012 at Educity, Sebokeng
Special invitation to the launch of the Regional Innovation Forum & Science Park scheduled for 4 June 2012
18May2012 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
AGRICULTURAL BUSINESS CHAMBER (ABC) ABC AGBIZ CONGRESS 2012
AGRICULTURAL BUSINESS CHAMBER (ABC) ABC AGBIZ CONGRESS 2012 Investing in the future The ABC Agbiz Congress 2012 takes place from 5 – 6 June 2012 at the Champagne Sports Resort in the Drakensberg. It is a biennial agribusiness congress that brings together agribusiness CEO’s, senior executives, government officials, financiers and other relevant agribusiness stakeholders. This prestigious [...]
25Apr2012 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
Invitation to Innov8 Themed “Optimising Benefits from SKA”- 08 Feb 2012
Innov8 with The Innovation Hub
8th February 2012 (17h00 –19h00) at The Innovation Hub Conference Venue
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The Economist debate: Education and innovation
From 14th to 24th September The Economist magazine will run a live debate on the question “how can innovation be encouraged?” Click here to participate www.economist.com/debate
21Sep2010 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
Do Knowledge Management and Innovation go hand in hand? by Greg Fainberg
In this now very much connected and social media overrun world, we find ourselves able to access worldwide expertise in seconds. We can see what our customers are saying about us to their friends and family and we can usually see what our competitors are up to quite quickly. Therefore it is my opinion that [...]
13Sep2010 | Saine | 4 comments | Continued
SAINe Biennial General Meeting 2010 minutes
On 27 August 2010, SAINe held their first Biennial General Meeting where the 2011/2012 Steering Committee was elected and the SAINe Constitution was adopted. The new Steering Committee consists of: 1. Adrienne Viljoen (SABS Design Institute) 2. Pieter Nortje (ESKOM) 3. Isaiah Engelbrecht (IDC) 4. Jayshree Naidoo (DBSA) 5. Nicky Koorbanally (CSIR Meraka Institute) 6. [...]
10Sep2010 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
State of the Future Book Launch
The 2010 State of the Future report has been released and is available to interested parties at a cost of R375 per book. Among the regular sections in the ninety page State of the Future report are the annually updated analyses of the fifteen key global challenges, as well as the publication of the State [...]
9Sep2010 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
I‘ve got a great idea! (Now where can I get the money?)
Well firstly, a great idea is simply not good enough to get money! In order to get money you need to unpack way more than your idea to a provider of capital. One of the greatest challenges facing South Africa is the rejuvenation of its business environment. The greatest hurdle in this rejuvenation process may [...]
30Aug2010 | Saine | 3 comments | Continued
African Copyright and Access to Knowledge (ACA2K) Project
The African Copyright & Access to Knowledge (ACA2K) Project is probing the relationship between national copyright environments and access to learning materials in African countries. The project is probing this relationship within an access to knowledge (A2K) framework – a framework which regards the protection/promotion of user access as one of the central objectives of [...]
24Aug2010 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
The Creativity Crisis – Newsweek
For the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining. What went wrong—and how we can fix it. Back in 1958, Ted Schwarzrock was an 8-year-old third grader when he became one of the “Torrance kids,” a group of nearly 400 Minneapolis children who completed a series of creativity tasks newly designed by professor [...]
6Aug2010 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
WHAT DO WE REALLY WANT FROM INNOVATION?
by Rishab Rao and Jac Spies Innovation Practitioners at BMGI South Africa Abstract What do our customers really want? Who are the customers we should concern ourselves with? How do we get the right voice of the customer? Do our customers really know what they want? Have these questions ever sparked debate within your organizations? [...]
4Aug2010 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
CORPORATE DECISION MAKING: Effect on Continuous Innovation Efforts in Firms
by Peter J. Jansen van Nieuwenhuizen © July 30, 2010 ABSTRACT – Stress inhibits creative thinking in the twenty-first century firm. As firms increasingly form part of the knowledge economy, lower creative thinking can, eventually, make the firm competitively irrelevant. Managers must understand the link between creative thinking and stress. 1. INTRODUCTION Decisions and actions [...]
4Aug2010 | Saine | 1 comment | Continued
HOW TO CHANGE A PARADIGM…
by Madeleen Gorst-Allman Principal St Paulus Primary THAT ESSENTIAL PARADIGM SHIFT … In ensuring that we are educating tomorrow’s adults to respond adequately to social and environmental issues with the urgency and understanding they require, we need to facilitate a number of mindset changes. First and foremost, we all need to change our perception of [...]
2Aug2010 | Saine | 144 comments | Continued
State of the Future Report
The 2010 State of the Future report has been released and is available to interested parties at a cost of R375 per book. Among the regular sections in the ninety page State of the Future report are the annually updated analyses of the fifteen key global challenges, as well as the publication of the State [...]
26Jul2010 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
