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The Fourth Industrial Revolution Incubator (4IRI) is a registered non-profit organisation. The 4IRI was established through funding from SEDA as a response to assist and enable small businesses to participate meaningfully in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. This is an initiative that further aims to inspire young South African entrepreneurs to develop into successful leaders of industry. We are looking to assist these budding inventors and entrepreneurs to develop their ideas into business concepts, prototypes, and possibly into a fully-fledged business.

Middel & Partners is a boutique audit firm established since 1992. We are committed in providing a broad range of audit, accounting, taxation and business advisory services. We have a real understanding of the environment in which our clients operate and are ideally placed to help them grow and prosper by providing a high level of personalised advice.

Together with audit, accounting, tax and advisory services, we competently provide additional services such as company secretarial, financial statements and estate and succession planning, and this strengthens our holistic approach.

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

• Jobs creations.
• Create opportunities for existing township entrepreneurs to expand, and for new entrepreneurs to emerge.
• Increase

Centre for Entrepreneurship Rapid Incubator (CFERI) Vhembe TVET College  is a center for manufacturing and engineering powered with technical center maker-space and center for entrepreneur and rapid incubation.  CFERI Vhembe TVET College is one of the very few centres in the country that is not sector specific, but focusing on different spheres of engineering namely Electrical, Mechanical, Civil and Chemical Engineering.

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

Purple Esther (PTY) LTD was established to create compliance with previously male dominated industries by tailored workwear or PPE that suits a female torso.

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

eGolibio is a South African life science incubator supporting SMEs with products and business development. It supports enterprises in the life science sector with product refinement, market access, networking, training and access to funding.

Its activities are aligned with the Department of Science and innovation (DSI) National Biotechnology Strategy (NBS) in the development of the bioeconomy.

The NBS reflects the government's commitment to biotechnology as an important source of future economic growth and is aligned with many developing and developed countries which invest heavily in