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Telkom Industry Solutions Lab In partnership with Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ Innovation Centre (WIC)
Telkom Industry Solutions Lab In partnership with Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ Innovation Centre (WIC)
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Strategic Partnership

The Telkom Industry Solutions Lab is the flagship commercial research and development (R&D) centre for the Telkom Group, established as a strategic partnership between Telkom and Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ University. 

For the Telkom Group:

This Lab represents the strategic investment in the company's future through innovation. Telkom’s investment is augmented by diverse capabilities and expertise from across its subsidiaries and business units - BCX, Gyro, Swiftnet, Openserve, Telkom Consumer and Small Business.

Being a business-linked R&D centre, the lab is set upon the  strategy and is presented with unlimited innovation opportunities enabled by the Group’s wealth of resources and infrastructure. 

For Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ University:

As a research-intensive university, Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ is tasked to create:

  • New knowledge - research
  • Share that knowledge - teach, and
  • Use that knowledge for good – innovate.

Leveraging our 100-year history of being an innovator for advancement across all disciplines, this strategic partnership provides Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ with a unique opportunity to meet society’s needs by turning knowledge into impactful solutions supported by:

  1. Stable research and innovation funding
  2. Research that is limited by ideas and not by resources
  3. Research that is problem-driven. and
  4. Support for interdisciplinary research.

Find out more:

See our latest Research news and Innovation news (Future), and read the latest issue of our research magazine Curios.ty - our theme-based print and digital magazine that tells the stories of groundbreaking research through the voices of talented researchers, students, and academics.

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For the Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ Innovation Centre (WIC):

The location of this lab provides a unique platform for collaboration and knowledge exchange between Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ researchers, entrepreneurs, innovators, and Telkom experts towards impactful solutions possible only through such an integrated innovation ecosystem.

For more on the WIC's activities visit /innovation/wits-innovation-centre/.

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