Van Rensburg, JRSmit, DVeldsman, A2007-11-152007-11-152007-05Van Rensburg, JR, Smit, D and Veldsman, A. 2007. “Marrying the ‘System of Innovation’ and micro enterprises in real world rural SADC”: an overview of collaborative SMME incubation in the Rural Living Lab of Sekhukhune. IST-Africa 2007 Conference, Maputo, Mozambique, 9-11 May 2007, pp 11http://hdl.handle.net/10204/15992007: IST-Africa 2007 Conference, Maputo, MozambiqueThis paper is part of a series dealing with the “Expansion of European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) to Africa - Opportunities, Synergies, Benefits and Limitations”. It provides an overview of the Sekhukhune Rural Living Lab and explores specifically the collaborative business incubation aspects of this Living Lab. It highlights some of the business incubation challenges with regards to the “marriage” between ‘Systems of Innovation’ and the (SMME) inhabitants of “natural daily life /work environments”. It is also an effort at raising the interest of other actors in this arena to collaborate in this endeavour and to collectively find ways of ensuring a more inclusive, real world (and real people) approach to rural developmentenRLLRural living labRural business incubationCollaboration@RuralRural development in emerging economiesICT4DevConference PresentationVan Rensburg, J., Smit, D., & Veldsman, A. (2007). “Marrying the ‘System of Innovation’ and micro enterprises in real world rural SADC”: an overview of collaborative SMME incubation in the Rural Living Lab of Sekhukhune. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1599Van Rensburg, JR, D Smit, and A Veldsman. "“Marrying the ‘System of Innovation’ and micro enterprises in real world rural SADC”: an overview of collaborative SMME incubation in the Rural Living Lab of Sekhukhune." (2007): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1599Van Rensburg J, Smit D, Veldsman A, “Marrying the ‘System of Innovation’ and micro enterprises in real world rural SADC”: an overview of collaborative SMME incubation in the Rural Living Lab of Sekhukhune; 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1599 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Van Rensburg, JR AU - Smit, D AU - Veldsman, A AB - This paper is part of a series dealing with the “Expansion of European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) to Africa - Opportunities, Synergies, Benefits and Limitations”. It provides an overview of the Sekhukhune Rural Living Lab and explores specifically the collaborative business incubation aspects of this Living Lab. It highlights some of the business incubation challenges with regards to the “marriage” between ‘Systems of Innovation’ and the (SMME) inhabitants of “natural daily life /work environments”. It is also an effort at raising the interest of other actors in this arena to collaborate in this endeavour and to collectively find ways of ensuring a more inclusive, real world (and real people) approach to rural development DA - 2007-05 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - RLL KW - Rural living lab KW - Rural business incubation KW - Collaboration@Rural KW - Rural development in emerging economies KW - ICT4Dev LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2007 T1 - “Marrying the ‘System of Innovation’ and micro enterprises in real world rural SADC”: an overview of collaborative SMME incubation in the Rural Living Lab of Sekhukhune TI - “Marrying the ‘System of Innovation’ and micro enterprises in real world rural SADC”: an overview of collaborative SMME incubation in the Rural Living Lab of Sekhukhune UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1599 ER -