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2026-03-26 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, Featured, Research news, Corporate

Unisa student uses innovation to improve access to mental healthcare

Proud Unisan Jessica Maleka, a young entrepreneur and winner of the Unisa Innovation Challenge, recently took top honours in the 2026 Venture Crawl International Pitch Competition.

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2026-02-26 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, Featured, Research news, Corporate

Building innovation capability across borders

Unisa's Directorate of Innovation, Technology Transfer and Commercialisation is strengthening innovation capacity at the University of Zambia through a growing strategic collaboration.

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2025-11-11 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, Featured, Research news, Corporate

Economic expert to judge renewal energy pitches during the Tshwane Youth Innovation Challenge

As part of the 2025 Unisa Innovation Festival, Dr Lardo Stander, an economic entrepreneur and CEO of the Tshwane Economic Development Agency, will judge renewable energy pitches by Unisa students who are finalists in the Tshwane Youth Innovation Challenge.

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2025-11-10 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, Featured, Research news, Corporate

Research and innovation ecosystem practitioner to speak at the Innovation Festival

Shanna Nienaber, Programme Manager at the Water Research Commission, will speak on "Innovating and commercialising within the parameters of legislation", at the 2025 Unisa Innovation Festival.

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2025-11-06 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, Featured, Research news, Corporate

Turning waste into power – The Archaea Eco story

Iviwe Notununu, a Unisa Innovation Challenge winner from the previous #UnisaInnovationFestival, has been making strides and effecting change through his startup, Archaea Eco, turning organic waste into clean cooking biogas and fertiliser.

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2025-11-04 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, Featured, Corporate

Visionary youth champion to address Unisa’s Innovation Festival

Join Noxolo Fani, a passionate and award-winning entrepreneur dedicated to business excellence and empowering South Africa's youth, as she presents her unique take on young entrepreneurship and innovation during the Unisa Innovation Festival.

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2025-10-21 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, Featured, Research news, Corporate

Managerial, leadership and innovation specialist to speak at Unisa's Innovation Festival

Prof Benjamin Anderson, Co-founder and Executive Director of the Da Vinci Institute, will discuss bridging academic theory with real-world business practice at the formal opening of the Unisa Innovation Festival on 18 November.

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2025-10-07 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, Featured, Corporate

Groundbreaking milestone as Unisa exceeds 100 patents granted

Unisa’s Directorate of Innovation, Technology Transfer and Commercialisation has made tremendous progress in the promotion and support of innovative solutions and inventions from Unisa’s research and development activities, with more than a hundred patents granted for inventions that stem from its ongoing research and development efforts.

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2025-07-10 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, Featured, Research news, Corporate

Cementing global collaboration through innovation and entrepreneurship exchange programme

To cement global collaboration, Unisa's student innovators and technology entrepreneurs have embarked on an international exchange programme that exposes them to world-class innovation practices, elevating the university's endeavour to promote innovation, entrepreneurship and commercialisation.

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