It is no secret that the process of developing new biotechnologies that involve human health and safety can be an arduous task that takes a long time to commercialize. The timeframes can stretch anything from four to 20 years to develop a certain product, but these products hold critical and immense benefits for both the economy and the population.
The development process of biotechnology can be sped up if the financing for these projects is more readily available, but what keeps private investors from injecting their funds into technologies t...
In Africa, we have a wealth of indigenous knowledge, best practices and products that address some of the health challenges that our people face. When one visits communities and rural villages, you will find practitioners who have got excellent solutions for everyday ailments, but we have not managed to tap into that to scale up or bring to other markets.
The BioPark@Gauteng, a business incubator at The Innovation Hub is working with these citizen knowledge holders, bringing them together with researchers to see how we can take what has been u...
The majority of all manufacturing businesses use castings as input components, and these components are produced by foundries. Foundries can be qualified as the back bone of the manufacturing industry and are strategically and economically critical to Africa for employment and a multiplier in the manufacturing value chain.
The foundry industry is expected to play a major role in supplying the massive infrastructure for governments development programme, it is for this reason, among others, that The Department of Trade and Industry’s IPAP...
The Trade Marks Act of 1993 defines a trade mark is a mark that is used or proposed to be used in a course of trade and is capable of distinguishing goods or services. According to common law, the extensive use and promotion of a mark may afford the owner/trader rights to the said mark. The Trade Marks Act is one of the numerous pieces of statutory legislation that directly affect advertising in South Africa. Legal remedies of passing off and unfair competit...
The Start-Up Support Programme (SSP) aims to ensure that innovative and knowledge economy based small businesses (SMEs) and projects have access to finance.
The purpose of the SSP grant is to assist in the acceleration of a knowledge- based economy through the of provision of appropriate funding to SME’s during critical stages of their business development.
In order to achieve this purpose, the SSP has adopted a consultative investment process, which seeks to foster entrepreneurship and building of innovative knowledge-based com...
