About Us
About the Innovation Bridge Portal
The Innovation Bridge Portal is a ground-breaking digital platform designed to reveal and connect the creativity and innovation; endless opportunities; intellectual and human capital and heightened activity that exists within the African ecosystem.
We recognize that each stakeholder embarks on a unique journey in terms of trajectory and direction. By forming a supportive community comprising stakeholders which include entrepreneurs, ecosystem participants and relevant government agencies/dept, this platform is creating an enabling structure that allows passage in a desirable direction to a desirable destination.
The portal is therefore designed to serve as a roadmap uniquely customised to the specific needs of its ecosystem users. Users are guided and supported towards their next best step forward in their unique trajectories.
The Innovation Bridge Portal is a South African Government initiative led by the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) and the Department of Small Business Development (DSBD). The initiative is co-funded by the European Union (EU) through the Ecosystems Development for Small Enterprises Programme (ESDE) and supported by the World Bank Group.
The Innovation Bridge Portal is proud to be a part of the national efforts in combatting the COVID-19 Pandemic, by providing an enabling platform that aims to identify all COVID-19-related research and innovation being conducted or planned. The platform is brought to you in partnership with the Department of Science and Innovation and the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), both of which endeavor to encourage collaboration, avoid duplication and, identify research and development funding needs and gaps during this critical time.