The TIA Seed Fund was established to assist Higher Education Institutions to bridge the gap between research outputs and commercialisation. The main objective of the Fund is to de-risk the development of technologies in order to increase the pipeline of technology innovations that make it through this value chain. Fundamentally, the fund is expected to increase the quality and quantity of project proposals to other TIA funds; and improve the commercialisation probability of South African technologies that emanate from universities.

The HEI Seed Fund Programme is geared towards taking projects to a level of technical and commercial proof of concept, while adding value to the management of the Institution’s intellectual property. The Programme therefore bridges the funding gap for projects that are too early for TIA’s mainstream Technology Development Fund, where higher quanta of funding may be needed, or other potential funders.

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS IS FRIDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2015. 

Please send applications to:

Anne Gabathuse

UKZN InQubate

Email: Gabathuse@ukzn.ac.za

                                                           Tel: 0312603326