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GEC+Africa 2026

Connecting Africa: what the opening of GEC+Africa 2026 asks of South Africa's innovation ecosystem

The opening of the continent's largest entrepreneurship gathering set out the cost of a fragmented Africa, the narrowing of global capital, and the standard against which our ecosystems should be measured. Part 1 of the GEC+Africa 2026 series | Innovation Bridge Portal The Global Entrepreneurship
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Prof. Tebogo Mothiba receives the Distinguished Woman Researcher award in the Innovation for Impact category from Prof. Blade Nzimande, MP, Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation. [Photo credit to be confirmed — DSTI]

Beyond publication: the SAWiSA category ISEP sponsors rewards research that reached the point of use

South Africa does not have a research shortage it has a translation gap. At the 2026 South African Women in Science Awards, the Innovation Support and Enablement Programme sponsored the one category that rewards what happens after publication. Meet its two winners. Every year the country produces
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PART 2 OF THE GEC+AFRICA 2026 SERIES

Why supplier development stalls, and what the organisations getting it right do differently

A GEC+Africa 2026 panel made a case worth taking seriously: the binding constraint in enterprise and supplier development now sits on the buyer's side of the table, not the supplier's. Enterprise and supplier development, or ESD, is the investment large companies make in helping small businesses
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