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When we all face the same problem, innovative solutions can come from anybody

Mobility: South Africans have to find local solutions to solve congestion problems

Congestion in South African cities costs the economy about R3-billion each year

Youth enjoy the 2018 South African Innovation Summit held at Cape Town Stadium. (Photos: Anthea Davidson)

What is social innovation, and why does it matter?

Thinking about how to approach challenges as opportunities is as crucial to social causes as it is to startups and big business

Virtual Reality headsets provide simulations at the 2018 South African Innovation Summit

A lot to learn

Tech innovation has a role to play in a broad range of educational issues, and can help struggling students

Elon Musk remains the poster boy for innovative South Africans

Innovation for Africa

South Africa is likely to remain Africa’s innovation powerhouse, particularly as growth in mobile technology provides significant opportunities

(Reuters)

When Giants Fall: Why you need to innovate to stay relevant

It’s not big events like a financial crisis that can cause the downfall of large established companies. Sometimes it happens a lot more gradually.

Carlman Moyo of DuPont is one of the chief executives who will sit on the CEO panel at the Innovation Summit. The panel discussion is due to start at noon on Wednesday August 28. (DuPont)

Communication and collaboration drive success

A panel of chief executives will share ways to foster innovation at this year’s summit.

The outcome of the ANC’s long-awaited KwaZulu-Natal conference was a win for the Thuma Mina crowd. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Don’t invite guests to a house that is not in order

Open innovation, where companies share their resources to get to market faster, might be the solution for African innovators.

The outcome of the ANC’s long-awaited KwaZulu-Natal conference was a win for the Thuma Mina crowd. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Africa is where it’s at

It is already the most overused word since Web 2.0, so how can we take anything that involves "innovation" seriously anymore?

Improving systems of innovation

Measuring innovation in developing countries has always been a challenge.

Learning from Chile and Malaysia

Learning from Chile and Malaysia

Innovative approaches to incubators can help us to create the jobs we need

Encourage the domino effect of innovation

Encourage the domino effect of innovation

Innovation is a broad discipline

Professor Willem Clarke says Resolution Circle supports both academic and innovation needs.

A win-win model for local innovation

A R300-million project partnership will take technology innovation beyond the ideas stage

Director-general of the department of science and technology

‘Innovation is more than R&D’

Scientist criticises ministerial review report for having a limited and linear view of innovation

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Ten innovation principles from the human genome

The human genome project made the genetic code contained in every human cell publicly available for the first time in 2001.

Scouring the news: Charles Maisel

Find new ideas in newspapers

Using the concept of reading the papers daily with the objective of finding innovative ideas, a new technique can easily be shown and taught.