Participants in the latest Airbus BizLab and GIZ #Africa4Future challenge for innovative African aerospace and remote sensing start-ups met with experts, investors and other stakeholders at an innovators summit in Cape Town in May 2019. Africa’s top start-ups presented proposals to tackle water, food and land security, healthcare, urban development and engineering challenges in Africa. […]
The versatility and broad spectrum of activity that encompasses amateur radio has attracted interest from BinarySpace, a Makerspace Group in Vanderbijlpark. It has taken their activity to a higher level and introduced many new challenges by launching their projects into a near space orbit. Makerspaces are relative unknown in South Africa. A Makerspace is a […]
“Science, technology and innovation is a force for development and critical to ensuring long-term growth for South Africa”, said Minister of Science and Technology, Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane, at the first summit discussing the draft white paper on science, technology and innovation (STI). The summit was held at the University of Pretoria and is the culmination of […]
High school students from across Africa recently had the opportunity to show off their science projects at the Eskom Expo for Young Scientists International Science Fair 2018, held in Boksburg in early October. Industry presented 22 students with Hendrik van der Bijl Awards totalling R111 500 at the special awards evening. Five hundred learners presented their […]
The Vaal University of Technology (VUT) Southern Gauteng Science and Technology Park in partnership with VUT Research Directorate recently hosted an industry day for the electronic and automation industries. The aim of the event was to foster working relations between VUT academic staff/researchers and industry in order to improve the culture of innovation and commercialisation […]
The Aston Martin Red Bull F1 racing team faces a great deal more IT challenges than your average enterprise. Not many IT teams have to rebuild their data centre 21 times each year and spin it up in a matter of hours. Not many data centres are packed up and transported around the world by […]
Twenty years after the adoption of the first White Paper on Science and Technology (DST) in 1996, the Department of Science and Technology (DST) began developing a new draft White Paper on Science, Technology and Innovation (STI), which was approved by Cabinet in September 2018. The new document will ensure a growing role for STI […]
South Africa’s gross expenditure on research and development (R&D) as a percentage of GDP is currently at about 0,76%. The Department of Science and Technology’s (DST) draft white paper proposes that this be increased to 1,5% over the next decade. This will be done through improved incentives for business R&D, contributions to public science technology innovation […]
The Department of Science and Technology (DST) plans to invest hundreds of millions of Rands on programmes in the knowledge economy to stimulate economic growth, enhance energy security, and promote the country as a research and development destination. The Minister of Science and Technology, Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane, delivered her first budget vote as the department finalises a […]
The energy world is undergoing a grand transition driven by a combination of factors. Christophe Frei, the secretary general and CEO of the World Energy Council, says the fast-paced development of new technologies, together with an unstoppable digital revolution combined with global environmental challenges, present innovation opportunities for companies and start-ups all over the world. […]
