Kuba powers South Africa’s fastest-growing and most accessible small businesses ecosystem :

  • Small Businesses get access to markets, tools, networks and opportunities that help them professionalize & grow their business.
  • Consumers get easy access to reliable, cost-effective services and solutions where they live.
  • Kuba connects corporations that seek to improve and invest in local economic developments
Our objective is to stimulate local economies through:
  • Jobs creations.
  • Create opportunities for existing township entrepreneurs to expand, and for new entrepreneurs to emerge.
  • Increase

The International Science Council (ISC) Regional Office for Africa (ROA) endeavours to ensure that the voice of African scientists influence the international science agenda and that scientists from Africa are fully involved in international research programmes guided by regional priorities.

The objective of ISC ROA

  • To assist ISC and its members in their strategic planning for activities in Africa and ensure that their plans and activities are well linked to the science community in the region, relevant networks and organisations and reflect Africa’s priorities;
  • To facilitate the

ASSAf was inaugurated in May 1996. It was formed in response to the need for an Academy of Science consonant with the dawn of democracy in South Africa: activist in its mission of using science and scholarship for the benefit of society, with a mandate encompassing all scholarly disciplines that use an open-minded and evidence-based approach to build knowledge. ASSAf thus adopted in its name the term 'science' in the singular as reflecting a common way of enquiring rather than an aggregation of different disciplines. Its Members are elected on the basis of a combination of two principal

Smit & Van Wyk is a specialist Intellectual Property (IP) law firm that deals exclusively with IP law in South Africa and across Africa as a whole. The qualified attorneys have the knowledge, experience and resources to give expert legal advice regarding IP portfolio’s and can assist with the filing, registration, prosecution and enforcement thereof.

The firm serves as a portal to the African continent for many foreign associates and multinational corporations. We file patent, trade mark, and registered design applications for our South African clients into foreign markets, while also

The purpose of the platform is to ensure that North West province becomes a knowledge-driven economy by introducing broad measures to improve performance in areas like ICT, R&D, education, entrepreneurial activity, innovation and knowledge flows- all of which are key determinants for innovative activity. The platform answers the provincial innovation and economic agenda as outlined in the Provincial Economic Strategy 2018 and PDP 2030. The platform objectives will be as follows:

  • To enhance and promote innovation and technology transfer through structured support to create jobs while

Founded in 2008, The Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) is a non-profit program established by Meltwater with the goal of equipping high potential young Africans with the skills required to launch globally successful software companies, enabling them to create jobs and wealth locally to stimulate economic growth across the African economy. Every year, aspiring entrepreneurs with a strong interest in technology & entrepreneurship from Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, and recently Cote d'Ivoire, apply and compete for 60 open spots in the program. MEST entrepreneurs have

The University of the Western Cape (UWC) is a national university, alert to its African and international context. It strives to be a place of quality, a place to grow. It is committed to excellence in teaching, learning and research, to nurturing the cultural diversity of South Africa, and to responding in critical and creative ways to the needs of a society in transition. The UWC Technology Transfer Office supports and facilitates the protection and commercialisation of UWC's intellectual property and research outputs.

University of Zululand  (UNIZULU) is located within the Umhlathuze Municipality, the fastest growing industrial hub and employer in northern KwaZulu-Natal. We are dedicated to being embedded in the local context and dedicated to developing local talents and entrepreneurship, with local industry (including partnerships and the maritime sector). The Research and Innovation Office promotes developmental and collaborative research and research-support initiatives, within and outside the academic community, at institutional, provincial, national and international levels.

The University of Cape Town is an inclusive and engaged research-intensive African university that inspires creativity through outstanding achievements in learning, discovery, and citizenship; enhancing the lives of its students and staff, advancing a more equitable and sustainable social order and influencing the global higher education landscape. UCT’s Research Contracts and Innovation (RC&I) supports UCT’s research activities, technology and innovation development, assists with the protection of the IP and supports job creation through commercialisation.

The University strives to be a quality-driven University of technology at the cutting edge of innovation. Pursuant to this vision, the University endeavours to contribute innovatively to the socio-economic development of the Republic of South Africa. The generation and application of knowledge is one of the critical components in attaining its vision. As such TUT strives to identify and protect any IP emanating from publicly funded R&D activities.