Innovation Fund News

The Innovation fund is once again offering some attractive incentives and business investment for entrepreneurs, this time in the renewable energy sector. The latest call for business plans and proposals close in the latter part of September. With just more than a month to go you should have enough time to tweak your proposal and who knows you may be the next idea to get funding and support.

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The Innovation Fund, through its Technology Advancement Programme (TAP), invites all South Africans (inventors, techno-entrepreneurs, engineers and researchers), who are engaged in the research and development of novel and inventive technologies, to submit their proposals.

The investment sought must be for research and development resulting in a working prototype, or similar, which is ready for commercialisation. The proposed technology must be a renewable energy technology.