2024-11-13 00:00:00.0 | Category:
Lead, Featured, Corporate
City of Tshwane becomes a strategic partner in the Unisa Innovation Festival
The City of Tshwane has announced its strategic partnership with the University of South Africa in the 2024 Innovation Festival. This move highlights the value placed by the city in Unisa's innovation agenda.
2024-11-05 00:00:00.0 | Category:
Lead, Featured, Research news, Corporate
Top banking and fintech specialist to address Innovation Festival
Lincoln Mali will speak at Unisa's upcoming Innovation Festival, which will showcase some of the country's leading innovation specialists sharing their insights about innovation's exciting and ever-changing face.
2024-10-29 00:00:00.0 | Category:
Lead, Featured, Corporate
The future is NOW – get ready for the Unisa Innovation Festival
The popular annual event returns, promising to elevate societal innovation to new heights. If you’re passionate about innovation or looking to become a leader in the field, you’re invited to join us at the exclusive Unisa Innovation Festival 2024.
2022-12-01 00:00:00.0 | Category:
Highlights
Innovators and entrepreneurs training – From ideation to the market
Is there a gap in the market, and is there a market in that gap? Unisa’s Directorate of Innovation, Technology Transfer and Commercialisation has been training staff and students to evaluate whether their proposed solution addresses a real market need.
2022-11-30 00:00:00.0 | Category:
Lead
Unisa student innovator accepted into the UK Future Female Business School
Caroline Matenchi, Unisa’s Biomedical Science student and inventor of an Agricultural Smart Sensor, has been accepted into the UK Future Female Business School Accelerator Programme. The programme aims to empower women in start-up, inter-median and functioning businesses to improve their target market and to be different in the Green-Tech solutions industry.
2022-11-29 00:00:00.0 | Category:
Corporate
Unisa exhibits its technologies at the 5th Annual Bio Africa Convention
Unisa technologies, created for the benefit of society and humanity, were exhibited at the 2022 Bio Africa Convention. The convention attracted stakeholders from the public and private sectors and served as a showcase platform for commercialisation opportunities.
2022-11-25 00:00:00.0 | Category:
Lead
Unlocking Unisa's innovative ideas
Unisa, as an entrepreneurial university, launched the Directorate of Innovation, Technology Transfer and Commercialisation's (DITTC) Pre-Incubation Programme in 2020. The programme was born from a need to support the innovative ideas emerging from the university and guide these to deliver a minimum viable product.
2022-09-20 00:00:00.0 | Category:
Featured, Research news, Corporate
Student exchange opens students’ eyes to international entrepreneurship trends
Unisa students promoted their research and innovation and participated in innovation and business plan competitions by presenting projects geared toward addressing some of Africa's societal and socio-economic challenges at three international universities.
2022-07-19 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Science, Engineering and Technology, Featured, Featured, Research news, Corporate
Unisa scholar secures seed fund to design pilot production plant
Prof Alex Kuvarega, thematic area leader for Nanostructured Materials at the Institute of Nanotechnology and Water Sustainability, was recently recognised with a Half Million Rand Club award for being granted a seed fund to design an innovative pilot plant.