Innovation Hub CEO Neville Comins has called for more investment in the Hub, Africa's first internationally-accredited science and technology park.
He was speaking in Pretoria on Tuesday at the roof wetting ceremony for the Innovation Hub, which will be a cluster of hi-tech businesses developed as part of the Gauteng Provincial Government's Blue IQ strategic economic infrastructure projects. Blue IQ has invested around R300 million in the project.
The science and technology park, which will be ready for its first occupants by the end of this year, is intended to unite the ICT community into a "centralised and comprehensive platform".
Comins stressed that the park would act as an education and research portal, as well as a place where different businesses could meet and network skills.
[VIDEO]Also speaking at the event, Paul Mashatile, MEC, Gauteng Finance and Economic Affairs, said the Innovation Hub has an important role to play in making a Gauteng a "smart province" and reducing poverty.
Sappi is the first phase-one anchor tenant on the site, and will use the building as its new technology centre.
Visitors were given a tour of the park, which is being developed to foster a sense of community among tenants, using piazzas and public squares, as well as minimal roads and landscaped gardens to promote walking instead of driving.
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