Innovation

Becoming an intrapreneur

Helping established businesses to innovate with a little help from like-minded students.

14 July 2021

From loadshedding to the water infrastructure crisis, South Africa is plagued with issues that affect the country on a daily basis. Koena Ronny Mabokela, the head of the Technopreneurship Centre, as well a lecturer at the University of Johannesburg currently completing his Ph.D in computer science, is working with students to try to solve many of these challenges.

“The Technopreneurship Centre is an innovation and ideation hub where industry and students come together to collaborate and solve challenges that beset communities,” says Mabokela. “The main theme is teaching students to become intrapreneurs. Our research has shown us that most of the startups that are successful around the globe have been started by students, some still at university and others who have dropped out to play and develop their ideas further and actually commercialise them.”

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