Available Ecosystem Support

Namibia Business Innovation Institute (NBII) formerly known as Namibia Business Innovation Centre (NBIC) is a national leader in research, entrepreneurship and innovation. NBII develops ways in getting your insight from idea to the marketplace by helping you to navigate the innovation process.

NBII

Zimele is about creating sustainability in business. It’s focused on building sustainable livelihoods in the Anglo American host communities and on strengthening relationships to create synergies within Anglo American and with broader mining industry partners. 

Zimele is playing its part to create

Grindstone is a structured entrepreneurship development programme that assists high-growth innovation-driven companies to get the fundamental building blocks in place to scale quickly and become sustainable and fundable.

Grindstone offers a range of programmes:

GrindstoneXL programme

Every year a

The Institute of Entrepreneurship Development (iED) is a non-profit organisation committed to the promotion of innovation and the enhancement of entrepreneurial spirit, and we invest in entrepreneurship daily.

As a state-of-the-art international organisation, a certified Center of Excellence, and a

BarloWorld Siyakhula is the supplier and enterprise development arm of Barloworld Limited responsible for promoting transformation, Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment and supplier diversity within the group's value chain.

BarloWorld Siyakhula creates opportunities for small and medium-sized

The CDI is a craft and design sector development agency with a mission to develop capable people and build responsible creative enterprises trading within local and international markets.

The CDI is a non-profit company with over 20 years of success in developing creative people, small businesses

The Durban Innovation Hub is a technology incubator and business advisory firm that seeks to promote a vibrant and collaborative ecosystem by connecting public and private enterprises with gifted African inventors, creative business technologists, data analysts and behavioural scientists.

It is a

Impact Amplifier is a South African based advisory firm focused on accelerating and investing in social and environmental innovation on the African continent.  It delivers acceleration services directly as well as through its unique white-labelled online platform, Impact OS, for other incubators and

Ignitor is an enterprise support programme that engages with South Africa's best entrepreneurs, inventors, scientists and artists and supports them to create and scale their innovations. 

WomHub provides hub support programmes and co-working facilities for female-founded teams.

It offers a suite of services, from tailored services for the individual founder all the way through to working with corporations that are focussed on building a diverse supply chain and workforce that is

The UCT GSB Solution Space is an ecosystem for high-impact early-stage start-ups, corporate innovation, and entrepreneurship development.

With a focus on innovation through collaboration, our approach involves holistic capacity building for entrepreneurs.

It supports entrepreneurs' learning and

LaunchLab is an initiative of Innovus, situated in the centre of Stellenbosch University’s campus. LaunchLab focuses on developing both the entrepreneur as well as the business.  It functions as a business accelerator and boosts entrepreneurship on campus by providing networking opportunities