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GODISA

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The GODISA Trust is partnered by the Department of Science and Technology and the Department of Trade and Industry.

Deriving its name from the Setswana word meaning ‘nurturing or helping to grow’, GODISA as such incubates and nurtures small, medium and micro-sized enterprises to play an increasingly vital role in the development of sustainable employment and the advancement of essential skills and technologies.

The GODISA Trusts is helping South Africans to cultivate their innovations and business ideas, and in the process uplifting and empowering individuals and their communities.

The objectives of GODISA are:

  • The establishment of technology business centers such as incubators, innovation centers, demonstration centers or hybrid centers with the aim of accelerating the development of technology driven enterprises.

  • Provide funding to qualifying technology centers

  • The enhancement of entrepreneurial and innovative thinking through effective and efficient center processes.

  • Provide sector focused SMME clusters with access to up-to-date technology and management support

  • Improve the business performance, profitability and survival rate of newly established technology based SMMEs

  • Promote competitiveness and the assimilation of best practice production technologies.

  • Promote economic growth and employment creation through the enhancement of technological innovation.

  • Continual improvement of the GODISA Trust by benchmarking and research.

  • Promote technology transfer/diffusion within the SMME sector of the local economy.

  • Provide sector focused SMME clusters with access to up-to-date technology and management support.

  • The facilitation of the transfer of effective and efficient technologies, business skills and expertise through various centers.


Contact Details:

Chief Executive Officer
Charles Wyeth

Postnet Suite 164
Private Bag X025
Lynnwood Ridge
0040
Tel: +27 (12) 841 3968
Fax +27 (12) 841 2867

For more information visit: www.godisa.net
 
   
 
 
   
 
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