Digital innovation research focus group launched
Big data refers to the use of data analytics to extract relevant information out of large-scale data sets which have become available due to advancements in data transmission and sensor technology.
TshepisoSAT, Africa’s first CubeSat, turns 4
Today (21 November) marks four years since the launch of CPUT’s TshepisoSAT (code named ZACUBE-1) from Yasny Launch Base in Russia.
Academic scoops continental research fund award
Prof Chux Gervase Iwu, Acting Assistant Dean: Research & Innovation in the Faculty of Business and Management Sciences, has added another feather to his cap after a collaborative research team he leads walked away with this year’s Emerald African Management Research Fund Award.
Iwu was recently presented with a certificate and funding for their research project entitled, “The wholesale-retail nexus: An assessment of the role of immigrant African wholesalers in the development of the retail entrepreneurship in South Africa”.
Iwu has won numerous accolades for his outstanding research work and has presented papers at many international conferences.
“Considering that I have received almost similar awards in the past, it sort of validates the necessity of researching emerging economies' socioeconomic matters.”
Emerald Publishing was founded in 1967 to champion new ideas that advance the research and practice of business and management. It manages a portfolio of nearly 300 journals, more than 2 500 books and over 1 500 teaching cases.
Emerald supports researchers through its awards programme which includes various research fund awards among others.
In addition to teaching entrepreneurship to students, Iwu is also assembling a team to gather data for the project.
“It makes me feel good that people are acknowledging the value of immigrant/migrant focused research so that we can start debunking the myths that immigrants are here to take people’s jobs and wives,” he jokingly adds.
“But seriously, the characterisation of migrants as desperate, dirty and dangerous (the infamous 3D euphemism) by the International Labour Organisation seems to represent indigenes' overall perceptions of the average migrant.
“And we can't say that the ill-treatment of immigrants by locals, and please note that this is not unique to South Africa, is not a reflection of the anxiety of locals. So, the value of this study is such that the reader gets to know that immigrants actually add value to mainstream socioeconomic dynamics of any nation.”
NRF rating for CPUT academic
Prof Oluwafemi Oguntibeju in the Department of Biomedical Sciences has maintained his C3 National Research Foundation (NRF) rating.
Water saving treatment system to boost textile industry
A treatment system developed by a team of innovators at CPUT’s Flow Process and Rheology Centre is set to boost the textile industry by significantly reducing the amount of potable water the industry uses.
African food for thought
Food security in Africa need not be a problem as the continent is home to most of the world’s drought-resistant crops.
Braai tool a blazing success
It started as a student project but an innovative tool, which revolves around one of SA’s favourite pastimes, has become a blazing success, which could soon hit the international market.
