Professional, scientific and technical activities

Centre for Entrepreneurship Rapid Incubator - West Coast College

The West Coast College has established the CFERI through funding provided by the Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA) to promote youth entrepreneurship and mitigate the constraints associated with the failure of youth owned start- up and early stage enterprises within the first three years of establishment. We aim to support start-up and early stage previously disadvantaged entrepreneurs with resources and services to increase their success which is measured by profitable and self- sustaining growth- oriented ventures that will contribute to the creation of jobs and economic growth in

Female Entrepreneurship at the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation: Investigating the motivations of, and barriers faced by, female entrepreneurs.

There is a large entrepreneurial gender disparity in South Africa. A recent survey shows that the average total early-stage entrepreneurial activity (TEA) female/male gender ratio is 0.70. Further statistics show that only 9% of women are involved in the early stages of entrepreneurial pursuit...

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The Daily Grind Hub

The Daily Grind Hub is a facility with space for thinkers, innovators and entrepreneurs to get the support, coaching, and mobilisation they need. 

The Daily Grind Hub offers the following services; 

  1. Incubation 
    • Pre-Incubation: Innovation assessment, business plan, business modelling and training
    • Incubation: Access to finance and coaching and mentoring, hosting, training, commercialization, and advanced business planning. 
    • Post-Incubation: Innovation diagnostics, international support, technology commercialization, clustering business development. 
  2. Co-Working Spaces
  3. Codetrepre

Clothing and Textiles Competitiveness Programme

Overview of your opportunity

The Clothing and Textiles Competitiveness Programme (CTCP) is a programme of the Department of Trade and Industry (the dti’s) and forms a core part of the implementation of the Customised Sector Programme (CSP’s) for the Clothing, Textiles, Footwear, Leather & Leather Goods Industries. The CTCP’s main objective is to assist industry in upgrading equipment, process, products and people, re-positioning South Africa to compete effectively against other low cost producing countries.

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Technology and Human Resource for Industry Programme

Overview of your opportunity

The Technology and Human Resources for Industry Programme (THRIP) is intended to leverage collaborative partnerships between government and industry (working with academia), for applied research and development projects in science, engineering and technology on a cost-sharing basis, to produce highly skilled human resources and technology solutions, for an improved industry and enterprise competitiveness. 

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MIC Khulisani Ventures

MIC Khulisani Ventures is Mineworkers Investment Company’s early-stage investment vehicle, providing capital for businesses that are ready to aggressively expand and increase their market footprint.

Our investment focus is innovative and highly disruptive black-owned South African businesses across diverse high-growth sectors.

Click here to apply. 

Erith Technologies

Industry 4.0 is all we are talking about, while the world is doing industry 4.0, Africa is still thinking about it.

Companies are always looking for ways to improve their Key Performance Indicators. We saw a gap in the market to use IoT as a vehicle to digitalization.

We provide productivity solutions using IoT (internet of things), our solutions also include Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, and Big Data Analytics. We offer the full IoT ecosystem to revitalise the manufacturing sector.

Most manufacturing companies collect data but they are not using it. We use smart sensors to

Amnova Tech

Amnova Tech is at the forefront of making it possible for people and organizations to create on a scale that has never been thought possible. We manufacture a variety of proprietary additive manufacturing technologies, ranging from large-format industrial hybrid 3D printers to educational 3D printers.

Utilize our technology to bring your concepts to life, and use our rapid prototyping services to get your products to market more quickly.

Ke Nako Electronics

National Youth Development Agency

The National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) is a South African-based agency established primarily to address challenges faced by the nation’s youth. 

NYDA Products and Services