Innovus Newsletter 47th Edition

Innovus Newsletter 47th Edition

WIPO South African Summer School on Intellectual Property & Transfer of Technology

Take the Lead, Own your Ideas, Today! 23 Nov - 3 Dec 2021 Are you a business owner or entrepreneur ready to take your business to the next level? Are you a student, full of innovative ideas, ready to take that professional leap? The University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), invites you to attend the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) South African Summer School on Intellectual Property & Technology Transfer. The WIPO Virtual Event Summer School is your all-access pass into gaining a deeper understanding of Intellectual Property (IP), and all you need to know to protect the future of your business innovation. Your FREE Virtual VIP...
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WEF recognises SharkSafe as a top ocean innovator

SharkSafe Barrier™, an Innovus spinout company from Stellenbosch University, was recognised by the World Economic Forum's digital platform UpLink as one of its top ocean innovators.   UpLink, the WEF's digital platform for scaling innovation and driving progress toward sustainable development goals, unveiled its second cohort of ocean innovators on 22 January 2021. The platform aims to identify and highlight businesses such as SharkSafe PTY as a company with great potential to accelerate the United Nations' goals for sustainable development. This recognition was bestowed during the second Ocean Solutions Sprint supported by The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN); The Nature Conservancy...
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SU to issue its first short course e-certificates

For the first time, Stellenbosch University  will issue validated short course e-certificates this year, paving the way for others to follow suit. This initiative also saw SU receiving recognition by American Forest to have a beautiful tree planted in the name of the University. According to Carol Kat, head of copyright, trademarks and short courses at Innovus, the first short course e-certificates will be issued in the week of 15 February 2021. She said this is the result of the institutional shift to a fully online environment for teaching and learning mechanisms due to pandemic lockdown conditions. An urgent need arose within...
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Matie Shop now in the capable hands of Lara Cronje

Stellenbosch University’s famous Matie Shop is now in the capable hands of Lara Cronje. She joined Innovus recently as shop manager both for the bricks and mortar shop and the newly-launched online shop www.matieshop.co.za. Being responsible for the strategic management of the Matie Shop and ensuring the growth of SU and Maties branded apparel, Lara brings her 25 years of experience in the fashion industry to the University. Her expertise primarily in the youth apparel market, brand building, design, production, merchandising, and retail – both local and international – is spot-on for the new role she will fulfil working for “one of the...
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Matie shop goes online from 1 July 2021

Stellenbosch University’s popular Matie Shop opened its online shop on Thursday, 1 July 2021, offering its whole range of SU-branded apparel, gifts and accessories.   “We are very excited to offer our customers this convenient way of shopping,” says Matie Shop’s newly appointed manager, Lara Cronje. “To celebrate this milestone, we will have exciting specials throughout July – so please watch this space.”   For Cronje, who joined Innovus three months ago, the opening of the online shop is the the culmination of careful planning and testing of the online commerce environment. “Our team has been testing online sales for a while now, and there is a huge demand...
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CECO in full operation

The newly established Central Events and Conferencing Office (CECO) is in full operation and has been since we had come out of hard lockdown in 2020. This unit manages all short-term rentals for events and conferences on campus and is a central point of contact from now on to hire SU facilities.    “CECO manages short-term rentals for both SU clients as well as external clients wanting to rent our world-class facilities. There is a lot of new information regarding the services offered. We will be running a series of explainer videos over the next few months to clarify the new processes and...
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Candice found her dream job at Innovus

Meet Candice Verwey, the new administrative officer at Innovus’s intellectual property division.  Born and bred in the tiny town of Saron at the foot of the majestic Saronsberg between Porterville and Tulbagh, she had to leave this idyllic town to stand on her own feet after writing matric. She landed a job in Wynberg and immediately started saving to study for her Diploma in Office Management and Technology at the Cape University of Technology.  Her working life saw her being employed by one of South Africa’s first online book stores, Kalahari.net, and the popular Aleit events group in Somerset West. She also worked...
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Applications in for SU Techpreneurship Centre’s second Data Science and Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for 2021

Stellenbosch University LaunchLab’s newly-established SU Techpreneurship Centre (SU TPC) will be hosting its second Data Science, Machine Learning and Entrepreneurship Bootcamp in July this year after the first cohort successfully completed the programme in March 2021. The SU TPC is a new data science and entrepreneurial development upskilling initiative developed by the SU LaunchLab, the University’s technology and entrepreneurship incubator, in collaboration with the SU School for Data Science and Computational Thinking. The Centre offers courses that bridge the gap between technology and entrepreneurship by providing candidates with both in-depth programming skills in data science and machine learning and how to use...
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