• Innovation Management

    Innovation Management at SARAO extends beyond traditional product sales, it includes a range of pathways such as spin-offs, licensing, services, and product sales.

Services as a Form of Innovation Management

SARAO provides expert engineering services, generating revenue through key projects. For example, the INAF project, where we build digitizers for Italy, showcases how SARAO leverages its technical expertise to offer high-value services. Similarly, SARAO’s contributions to SKA MID demonstrate our role as a specialized engineering service provider.

What we do

  • Familiarize and conscientise staff about the management of IP considering the institutional policies, including compliance with the IPR Act

  • Support staff in identifying projects that have commercial and impact potential

  • Facilitate the protection of IP that is generated by the organization

  • Deliver programs that promote a culture of innovation

  • Support staff to source resources, including funding, to support projects development to commercial success

  • Manage the commercialisation agreements, including licensing and spin-outs, with third parties

  • Partner with other similar structures to strengthen the technology innovation system

Different Pathways to Innovation Management

  • Spin-offs

    Independent companies emerging from SARAO innovations, such as TSOLO. Read more.

  • Licensing

    Technology licensing agreements like those involving WBRX.

  • Services

    Revenue-generating engineering services, including INAF and SKA MID. Read more

  • Products

    Technologies developed at SARAO that are available for sale including (The South African National Ventilator Project (NVP) Read more.

    (Prosthetics Project Read more) though not yet in mass distribution.

Meet the Team

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