Adams & Adams is an internationally recognised and leading African law firm that specialises in providing intellectual property and commercial services.

With primary office locations in South Africa and branches and associate offices in a number of African countries, our firm’s leadership position is reflected in the groundbreaking work we do, the valuable client relationships we have and the quality of our professionals.

Our more than 200 professionals specialise in various legal and technical disciplines in intellectual property law, commercial and property law, and litigation. We proudly

High Commission of Canada in South Africa.

With the vision of being a key enabler of socio-economic development through innovation, KeNIA was set up to develop and manage the national innovation system.

The Kenya National Innovation Agency (KeNIA) is a State Corporation established under the Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Act, No. 28 of 2013 under the Ministry of Education. The core mandate of the Agency is to develop and manage the National Innovation System. The Agency is therefore responsible for co-ordination, promotion and regulation of the National Innovation Ecosystem.

Working with partners, KeNIA strengthens

Platform Entrepreneurial Hub exists to upskill entrepreneurs. We focus primarily on skills related to new venture creation and entrepreneurial leadership, and we provide high impact entrepreneurship education. 

Entrepreneurship education provides our students with the knowledge, skills and motivation to encourage entrepreneurial success in a variety of settings, including starting a business, or creating value within a working environment.

Through our accredited skills training courses and programs, we facilitate knowledge transfer that empowers all our students with skills to create value

Circle of Global Business Women is a global network of intelligent and innovative Women who are authentic in their endeavours to create a leadership shift globally. 

Circle of Global Business Women supports the rise of Women leaders globally and urges them to shatter the glass ceiling in various fields. Circle of Global Business Women embodies a female wave of change and a power circle of Women leading that change.

Programmes; 

Empowerment

  • Enterprise Development Programme for Business Women
  • Empowerment Programmes for Corporate Women, Entrepreneurs and Professional Women
  • Science

HYBR is a pan African innovation firm and growth platform for impact scale-ups. Our purpose is to scale positive impact to bring real and lasting change for the African ecosystem. To fulfil our purpose we are pursuing three innovation missions: Circular Economy; Inclusion; and Sustainable Lives. Each mission is a critical response to a generational societal challenge.

We have three complementary roles which are reflected by our services:

  • Venture Builder;
  • Innovation Partner; and
  • Systems Enabler. 

Black Umbrellas is an enterprise and supplier development (ESD) incubation organisation that partners with entrepreneurs, enterprises, investors and communities, to drive an inclusive and sustainable economic future by addressing the low levels of entrepreneurship and high failure rate of 100% black-owned emerging businesses in Africa.

Black Umbrellas focuses on developing qualifying businesses to a level where they can gain meaningful access to procurement, finance and networks and then facilitating access to these opportunities. While our programmes and platforms are available to any

We are a company in search of great creative innovation ideas to auction. We auction creative ideas from brilliant creative minds to all trading sectors. We source the best ideas, evaluate them, and prepare them for a pitch when the preparation is done.

 

The Ministry of Small Business Development was established in 2014 marking a turning point in the history of SMME’s and Co-operatives development in South Africa, demonstrating the Government’s commitment to place SMME’s and Co-operatives at the centre of economic growth and job creation.

The Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) was thereafter established as a standalone national department in accordance with the reorganisation of some national departments announced by the President in May 2014, following the national elections.

Mandate

To lead and coordinate an integrated

  • Exporters Eastern Cape is a member based non-profit organisation that facilitate conversations, information and collaboration in the Eastern Cape export market.  

The organisation’s mission is to encourage more local firms to prepare themselves to take on the challenge of exporting and to assist existing exporters to become more globally competitive.

Industries represented by our members include automotive manufacturers, OE motor manufacturers and component suppliers, agricultural and agri-processing (fruit, dairy, mohair, wool, etc.), service providers for exporters, shipping lines