Manufacturing

Institutes of Advanced Tooling: Stellenbosch University

The Institutes of Advanced Tooling (IAT) – Stellenbosch University (SU) vision is to work towards a national effort to build the innovation capacity of the South African tooling industry. The IAT works with companies aiming to improve their competitive position towards domestic and international competitors change tooling manufacture from a resource-driven to a knowledge-driven process by offering a well-balanced combination of technology enablers for all steps of the extended life cycle to small-medium enterprises (SME’s) in the tooling sector.

The IAT aims to create a foundation for a new

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...

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;

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.
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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.

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.

Agro-Processing Support Scheme

Overview of your opportunity

The Agro-processing Support Scheme (APSS) aims to stimulate investment by the South African agro-processing / beneficiation (agri-business) enterprises. The investment should demonstrate that it will achieve some of the following: Increased capacity, employment creation, modernised machinery and equipment, competitiveness and productivity improvement and broadening participation.

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.

Aqua-amanzi Engineering Solutions(Pty)Ltd

Aqua-Amanzi serves as a hub of professional competence in water activities, roads & stormwater activities, and project management excellence. It encompasses "planning and design" as well as "operations and maintenance" in the transportation & water industry. Our main goal is to constantly help any water and transportation sector or firm with any water-related problems as well as infrastructure. The finest output of excellence is the presenters of solutions that are always aligned within the targeted or even less expected period of a customer. Excellence is exhibited by applying technical minds

DIAMOND UMBRELLA DEVS

Diamond Umbrella Devs is a hub for developers in tech, agriculture, infrastructure, entertainment and cleaning industries.

The purpose of the corporation is to be an umbrella for any business model that it believes is very innovative, innovations can vary from software technology, cleaning industry tools, agricultural equipment etc.

In conclusion, Diamond Umbrella Devs finds young innovators and helps in finding platforms where they can present at a professional level.

Kayowo Trading

We are experts in fitted kitchen and wall wardrobe TV stands, bathroom cabinets, shoe racks, study tables, and two-door closet repairs, among other things.

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