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On September 15th 2017, it will again be time for the Department of Science and Technology’s Innovation Bridge event. The event is seen as South Africa’s premier “Technology Matchmaking and Showcasing Event”. The event is aimed at enabling linkages and networking between South African and international innovators, industry and public and private technology development, and commercialisation funding partners. UCT’s Research Contracts and Innovation (RC&I) will be exhibiting several UCT innovation at Innovation Bridge. Come and meet us there to see our exciting innovations
Dr Llewellyn Padayachy, a neurosurgeon at UCT’s Red Cross Children’s Hospital, met medical device experts from SINTEF (Norway) and collaborated on the development of a device to measure intracranial pressure (ICP) non-invasively using ultrasound, based on his original idea. Excellent progress has been made and a new UCT/SINTEF spin-off company “Nisonic” has been established in Norway to use venture capital available in that environment to take the development through to commercialisation. Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) Seed funding will be used to perform the initial validation of the device in clinical trials which will be conducted in SA.
After being incubated for a number of years within UCT in order to determine its long-term viability, Cape Catalytix (Pty) Ltd has been formally incorporated now in 2017 as a spin-off company. The company will manufacture the catalysis test units that have been supplied by UCT to other institutions in South Africa for their research.
RC&I has produced hard copy laboratory notebooks a number of years, but especially in certain research areas an electronic notebook is now preferable. Following a survey by the eResearch Centre the preferred eLab Notebook is “OneNote”, which is available to the UCT community at no additional cost, as it is included in the Microsoft site license.